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Printing itself works but the printout covers only 1/4 of the paper – what am I doing wrong ?

April 26, 2017covers doing paper printing printout wrong

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Printing itself works but the printout covers only 1/4 of the paper – what am I doing wrong ?

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This is usually an indicator for a wrong DPI setting. The default “PSdefault” model config uses 300 DPI but some printers only support 600 DPI. Workaround: Edit ${XPCONFIGDIR}/C/print/attributes/document and replace the line “*default-printer-resolution: 300” with “*default-printer-resolution: 600” (Note that locale-specific settings in ${XPCONFIGDIR}/${LANG}/print/attributes/document always override values set in ${XPCONFIGDIR}/C/print/attributes/document.) Solution: Create a model-config for your printer which only contains attributes supported by your printer (“printer-resolutions-supported” is the attribute in the “model-config” which holds the space-seperated list of DPI values which are supported by the printer).