[rescue] SPARCprinter follies continued.

[John-Paul Stewart]

Check paper size settings.  I've seen similar problems when printing to
US Letter (8.5" x 11") paper with software that was configured for the
slightly narrower but taller A4 size.

I suspect that LibreOffice is correctly configured to match the actual
paper size of your printer and overriding the system-wide default, while
GEdit is simply using the default paper size which might be incorrectly
set.  Since you're using Ubuntu, check the /etc/papersize file and make
sure it matches what you're using.  I've seen Debian (and derivatives
such as Ubuntu) default to European "A4" when I actually use "letter".



On 2019-09-05 3:40 p.m., john wrote:
> I have found that anything I print from the Sun does not shift the image
> on subsequent pages.
> 
> I've also found that pages printed from LibreOffice using one
> combination of printer settings on a networked Ubuntu machine do not shift.
> 
> But pages printed from Gedit do shift.
> 
> LibreOffice has a number of options which apparently affect the output
> which runs through CUPS on the Ubuntu machines, and my selection of
> Postscript Level 3 may be what's fixing it.BB  So now I need to try the
> other options to see if I can identify the problem using LibreOffice and
> then go back and try to fix CUPS which is where I think the problem
> probably is.BB  And it could well be a bad choice of one of the options in
> my SPARCstation.PPD file, a choice which didn't matter before something
> was updated in Ubuntu.