[Xprint] GISWxprint-sparc-2004-07-07-release_009_001 Prints toolarge

[Greg Youngdahl]

Hello,

	Sorry for resorting to direct communications, but I've not had any luck 
discovering any resolution to my printing problem via web searches or 
forum queries.  I'm hoping perhaps you can point me in a fruitful direction.

	I got this email address from clicking the heading of a topic that 
seems to be exactly the problem I'm having (the URL is: 
http://xprint.mozdev.org/pipermail/xprint/2004-October/000319.html ).
This is from last October, and seems to be some discussion as to whether 
Xprint should make use of a CUPS printer description if available, or 
not.  However it does nothing to address the problem for someone such as 
myself who can't print from Mozilla.  The links from the quoted message 
point to information that suggests setting the print DPI value in the 
/etc/Xprint document file from 300 up to 600, however as far as I can 
tell I'm already at 600.  That suggestion is categorized as a Workaround 
anyway, but the "Solution" of creating ones own model-config for Xprint 
has been difficult to find any resolution for as well.  In some Xprint 
FAQ it seemed to have such a topic among its questions, but when I went 
to the associated answer it just had "XXXX", which I guess was a place 
holder to indicate that someday an answer would be provided.

	Although the comments in the above referenced discussion seem to 
indicate that I'm not the only one experiencing this issue, I guess it 
must not be a high running problem, since I'm having such trouble 
finding any information to help resolve it.  Perhaps it is a printer 
specific issue, and I may have a rare printer?  If any significant 
number of people were unable to print satisfactorily I'm sure there 
would be plenty of discussion and resolution information available.

	In case it matters... I'm running Debian Linux 2.4.27 with Mozilla 
1.7.6 using CUPS for printer management.  I've got a single printer, an 
HP business inkjet 1100.  It all worked fine with an earlier version of 
Mozilla.  However some previous upgrade (I think to 1.6 Mozilla) broke 
it, but I was lazy and took the quick and dirty work around of using 
Konquerer (the KDE browser) to open a web page when I needed to print, 
and took to saving email messages that needed printing and opening them 
up with Kmail to print.  I had kind of hoped that the upgrade to 1.7 
would fix the problem, but it hasn't and so I'm determined to find and 
fix the problem so I don't have to deal with that cumbersome workaround 
anymore.

	So, if you have any insights, or can point me to some online resources 
that can help, I'd really appreciate it.

Thanks,
--
Greg Youngdahl
gyoungdahl at sbcglobal.net