Problems with Printing with a HP PSC1410, borders are wrong

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bl00dseeker · Post by **bl00dseeker** » Wed Oct 10, 2007 7:07 pm

Hi,
i have a HP PSC1410, so i installed hplip and cups, works fine. But i have a problem with the output. I wanted to print a pdf document and the page was printed with some missing at the bottom. So i know there is a printable range, but afaik this is not 1 or 2cm. So i have my paper and on the end a part of the document is missing, just white. Is there anyone who has an idea what i can do? I use A4 and the Paper is A4, too.

I tried it from windows, there it is fine so it must be a linux problem. When i compare the 2 papers, i see that the linux page seems to be set a little bit down. So i mean from top to text on the windowspage is smaller then the border at the linux page. I hope u unterstand what i mean. So i have to find a way to say linux to move the document a little bit higher to fit.

turtles · Post by **turtles** » Thu Oct 11, 2007 5:41 am

Do you use the hpijs print driver

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emerge hplip

and a one-cartridge (CMY) printing mode? IF not give them a try.

bl00dseeker · Post by **bl00dseeker** » Thu Oct 11, 2007 10:13 am

yes i use hplip.
I can choose the printout mode so that he uses just the black cartridge but this doesn't help.

edit:
http://web10.syscp.nutime.de/stuff/2007 ... _scrot.png

my config of cups

edit2:
i tried a knoppix live cd...same problem

bl00dseeker · Post by **bl00dseeker** » Fri Oct 12, 2007 11:01 am

Well i found this:
http://openprinting.org/show_printer.cg ... P-PSC_1400

Sort-of works; page margins are wrong (bottom and sides of pages get cut off)

Is there anyway to fix this? Maybe a way to say the printer to move the document a little bit higher?

jstead1 · Post by **jstead1** » Sat Oct 13, 2007 12:39 am

I think you could do this by altering the ppd file.
I think it is in /usr/share/cups/model/foomatic-ppds/HP/HP-PSC_1400-hpijs.ppd.gz
although you may be using a different one.

The ppd file is where the printable area and page sizes for a printer are defined.

I've never done it before, but I think it is possible.

Just save the unaltered ppd somewhere before messing with it.