morrison@grads.cs.ubc.ca (Rick Morrison) (06/26/89)
Has anyone had any success in printing a postscript file on legal
size paper using lpr? The Next printer suffers a paper jam when lpr is
invoked with legal size paper loaded. (For example try enscript -L78
foo.txt, where foo.txt will result in more than 1 page of output).
The jam seems to result because the printer's feed mechanism doesn't
know its supposed to be pushing legal paper.
There doesn't appear to be a flag to lpr or any
of the TRANSCRIPT family of commands to request legal size.
This suggested to me that maybe the %%%BoundingBox dimensions are used,
but inspecting numerous postscript files doesn't verify this hypothesis.
Does the application have to to an ioctl to select legal size?
Any advice would be appreciated.
Note that this problem does not arise when printing on legal size from
WriteNow.
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