[Users] Problem with printing.

sylpheed at 911networks.com sylpheed at 911networks.com
Sat Feb 25 18:41:29 CET 2012


On Sat, 25 Feb 2012 10:24:23 -0500
john Culleton <John at wexfordpress.com> wrote:

>I just had a major problem with my Linux Slackware 13.37
>partition so I put in a new one. The good news is that Claws-Mail
>can now reach my printers. The bad news is that when I print out
>a message the print image is offset to the left so that I lose the
>first character of each line. Perhaps Claws assumes an A4 instead of
>a letter page. In any case is there an adjustment somewhere that
>will center the image on the paper? If I print to file then it is
>OK.  

In CUPS set: 

page-left, page-right, page-top, and page-bottom

or from the command line: lpr -o page-left=x -o page-right=y

x, y = points; 1 point = 1/72inch

and now it works for me on Ubuntu since 8.04

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