got a Canon BJC 4200 and just been printing with open office and adobe pdf viewer and all the printouts are like quarter of the page when their sposed to be full size.whats happened?
got a Canon BJC 4200 and just been printing with open office and adobe pdf viewer and all the printouts are like quarter of the page when their sposed to be full size.whats happened?
Originally Posted by Fraz regarding the Apple Mighty Mouse
I'm guessing that you've gotten the wrong driver and so the DPI is all wrong. Or the DPI is all wrong anyway. How have you set up the printer? I assume you're running CUPS, so try looking through the configuration options.
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I'm on Ubuntu... i installed the driver through the printers tab in administratation tab.
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what is CUPS and how do i use it?
Originally Posted by Fraz regarding the Apple Mighty Mouse
CUPS is a printer driver mechanism used in several OSes, including Mac OS X, BSD, and Linux.
you should probably look for config stuff in the gnome control panel bit somewhere - and http://www.linuxprinting.org/ has general advice for printing on linux
so anyone know why its doing this?prints like a quarter of the page instead of full size it shrinks it... why is this?i have a cannon bjc 4200.
Originally Posted by Fraz regarding the Apple Mighty Mouse
Perhaps Ubuntu has a demo version of a commercial linux print driver, and the crippled demo mode only lets you print 1/4 of a page.
I did not think that there where good free drivers for cannon printers in Linux, but I know that the comercal turboprint drivers are available and are said to be good, so perhaps this is the crippled demo version. If it is, the full version costs about 30 euros.
I have Ubuntu and a cannon i850, so I will give it a try myself, though no promises.
Last edited by chrestomanci; 15-09-2006 at 08:07 PM.
Is the paper size set correctly mate? Its not set to A5 or something silly?
Is there any option to scale the image? As it may be downscaling it...
Just a couple of thought......
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nope mate its a4:S
Originally Posted by Fraz regarding the Apple Mighty Mouse
well i've tried the 3 options available... 90 180 360... all did nothing
Originally Posted by Fraz regarding the Apple Mighty Mouse
surely i can do it without paying to print for christ sake:S its sposed to be a free distro so simple things like printing.... otherwise it starts to become a paid for distro which leads me back to windows...
Originally Posted by Fraz regarding the Apple Mighty Mouse
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