[SOLVED] CUPS printing in landscape mode

[lomcevak]

RHEL 5.4

Trying to set up a printer for the 1st time using CUPS's GUI system-config-printer. Trying to set up a printer that will print in landscape mode, 132 characaters per line, and 66 lines per page. Got it to print in landscape mode but the line wraps at 108 characters.

What settings do I need to get it not to wrap. Current settings are:

cpi: 15
landscape: true
lpi: 8

Thanks

[Rubberman]

There are a number of factors that will affect how many characters are printed on a page.

1. Font size
2. Margins on the page
3. Font type - fixed width vs. proportional font

On my CentOS 5.4 system, the default margins set in the printer manager is about 1/8 inch on each side in landscape mode. The 132 char per line metric is edge-to-edge w/ no margins, or 12 characters per inch. If you are using 14 char / inch fonts, then 10.75 print inches will give you 107.5 characters per line - pretty much what you are seeing. So, first check your font sizes and then your margin settings.

[Rubberman]

Oops - bad calculations. The 107.5 chars per line should be w/ 10 cpi fonts. My bad. With 15 cpi fonts, you should be getting 50% more chars / line. Anyway, check your margin settings. Also try a smaller font to see if that helps.

[lomcevak]

Thanks for the replies Rubberman. But it's not margin settings or font size. In the example I was using there's like 3 inches of unused line before the right margin is reached.

[Rubberman]

You might want to see if adjusting the page-left/page-right settings as well. There are no settings for characters per line that I can find, it it might be using the page-right settings to determine where to wrap. I haven't tried this, so I can't say for sure.

[lomcevak]

Finally figured out what it was. Had to do the following:

1. Stop cups service
# service cups stop

2. Edit /etc/cups/mime.convs file and search for the below line
text/plain application/postscript 33 texttopaps

Change the above line to
text/plain application/postscript 33 texttops

save and exit.

3. Start the cups server
# service cups start

Then some tweaking of the margins and font size and it works.