Printer Margins

[Georgetoon]

PCLinuxOS did a terrific job setting up my printer, but it appears margins are still off.  I tried changing them in HP Device Manager and also in XPP.  I didn't change anything in XPP, though. I didn't quite understand the settings and how they would apply.

Anyhow, when I name the margins in Scribus to be half inch all the way around (top, bottom, left, and right margins). It's nowhere near that. It's 3/8 on the right, 11/16 on he right, 3/8 on the bottom, and 15/16 on the top.

EDIT -- I'm using an HP deskjet 3320 with USB connection, PCLinuxOS with KDE4.0, and Scibus.  The HP Device manager has all the regular options, but it is giving me a secondary window to adjust printer margins that cannot be adjusted.  Looks like these are set to default and may be the cause of throwing things off.

[pags]

Out of curiosity, what are the margins if you export to PDF?  If they are correct, what happens when you print the PDF?

[Georgetoon]

Good question.  I'll check that when I get back to my system.

[djohnston]

Good question.  I'll check that when I get back to my system.

The pdf viewer you print from may make a difference, too. I printed out a pdf from xpdf and the margins came out bad. Re-opened the pdf in Adobe and the file printed correctly. YMMV

[Georgetoon]

Well, margins are only slightly better in Evince.  I'd try KPDF, but need to instal it and it looks like the repo for my version of KE4 is now closed.

EDIT - I ust changed to YouCantoo
s frozen repo for KDE 4
URI:   rpm   http://kde3.pclosusers.com/pclosfiles
Distribution:   pclinuxos/2007
Section(s):   main extra nonfree kde4

KPDF is not available. I just checked with Okular.  Margins are exactly as in Scribus. They are off by the same amount.

[djohnston]

Looks like the printer settings do need tweaking. I'm not running KDE and my HP printer isn't full hplip-capable (it's a parallel-port printer). So, I would probably be as much help as a bump on a log.

I can tell you this, though. Nearly every printer problem I've encountered so far has been corrected by either verifying and loading the right drivers for the particular printer series, or simply uninstalling all printers in the PCLOS Control Center, then carefully reloading. So, don't be afraid to try re-installing printer drivers. If it were me, I'd work with the printer settings to try to get it back to the way it was with Scribus, or whichever DP app you use the most.

I would also edit your first post in this thread with the printer model, connection type (USB?), and what kind of options you're seeing and selecting in the HP Control Center. Someone may have the same printer model as yours.

[Georgetoon]

Looks like the printer settings do need tweaking. I'm not running KDE and my HP printer isn't full hplip-capable (it's a parallel-port printer). So, I would probably be as much help as a bump on a log.

I can tell you this, though. Nearly every printer problem I've encountered so far has been corrected by either verifying and loading the right drivers for the particular printer series, or simply uninstalling all printers in the PCLOS Control Center, then carefully reloading. So, don't be afraid to try re-installing printer drivers. If it were me, I'd work with the printer settings to try to get it back to the way it was with Scribus, or whichever DP app you use the most.

I would also edit your first post in this thread with the printer model, connection type (USB?), and what kind of options you're seeing and selecting in the HP Control Center. Someone may have the same printer model as yours.

Ya know what?   I'm a dummy!    Why the heck didn't I do that in the first place?  Gonna do it now.  Thanks for the common sense heads up.

[pags]

The other thing to note, in Scribus, when creating a document, is that in addition to the page's margins, there is an option for printer margins.  When you click it, you get a window with a drop-down to select your printer, and the option to adjust margins...

I haven't tried it here, as I don't currently have a printer installed (I dump stuff to PDF, and usually print from other systems)...not sure if that will help...

[Georgetoon]

The other thing to note, in Scribus, when creating a document, is that in addition to the page's margins, there is an option for printer margins.  When you click it, you get a window with a drop-down to select your printer, and the option to adjust margins...

I haven't tried it here, as I don't currently have a printer installed (I dump stuff to PDF, and usually print from other systems)...not sure if that will help...

Yes.  I'm not in front of my system now.  I'll double check all this tonight.