[Leaplist] Printing challenge

[Fred Moore]

Bruce Metcalf wrote:
> kestrel wrote:
>
>> There is a setting in OO that will override printer settings. It is
>> located under Format, then page , and then the page tab. If that
>> setting is landscape changing to portrait under printer setting
>> doesn't seem to work.
>
> It's not that the printer changes from landscape to portrait, it's
> that it prints perpendicular the the direction specified. All places
> where I can define the size or orientation are correct.
>
> What I *can't* set properly is the medias size in the Print module of
> OOo (under printer properties for HP5550). It has a list of media
> sizes that doesn't include 12x9 (or 9x12), and there appears to be no
> way to create a custom media size there.
>
> There are two sizes that have 12" widths, 12x17 and 12x16.93". Both
> print sideways.
>
> Perhaps someone knows a way to create a custom media size?
>
> Bruce
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Are you using the print envelope feature?..  see this document it may
lead you somewhere...
http://searchenterpriselinux.techtarget.com/tip/0,289483,sid39_gci1146815,00.html

its linked off the OO page.. Fred

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