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Martin Hope
Jordan Rieger
Asked: 2020-01-16 16:56:32 +0800 CST
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I have installed a Brother printer for a friend. The printer is currently connected by wireless to their laptop running Ubuntu. The problem is that when I print, the pages are cut off at the top and bottom margins. What I mean is that the printer (or printing driver) seems to have increased the top and bottom margins on its own without being told to by the computer.

  • Ubuntu 18.04.3 LTS
  • Brother MFC-J470DW printer
  • PPD file shows FormatVersion 4.3 and FileVersion 2.2
  • Printer connected wirelessly
  • All the documents I'm printing are formatted as Letter (8.5"x11").
  • I've tried printing from various apps; all have the same problem.
  • Printing from another device on the network (e.g. iPad) is fine.
  • The physical paper in the printer is Letter.
  • The little physical menu display on the front of the printer is set to Letter.
  • The printer settings in Ubuntu are also set to Letter. This applies to both [Settings > Printers > Brother_MFC_J470DW > Gear icon > Printing Options > Media size] and [Settings > Printers > Additional Printer Settings > Brother_MFC_J470DW > Properties > Job Options > Media]

I've prepared a single-page, letter-sized document in LibreOffice with a simple black border around the whole page and using default margins. When I print this page, rather than seeing the whole rectangular border, I only see the two sides of the rectangle. (Print preview is fine, but the physical print is cut off.) Here's a picture to illustrate:

Top and bottom of document are cut off when printing

It really feels to me like something in the printing pipeline in Ubuntu is applying an A4 paper size, but I can't figure out where. I say this because A4 paper is longer and narrower than Letter, so it would make sense that something in the printer driver is applying incorrect margins or printable area.

I'm able to workaround the problem using the "Scale to fit" checkbox in Job Options from the dialog path I specified above. But this option causes the whole document to be shrunk down, which is not ideal.

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Martin Hope
Jordan Rieger
Asked: 2013-12-21 20:54:11 +0800 CST
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I'm running XBMCBuntu 12.10 on an HTPC with the server hostname 'SCREEN', and trying to setup Samba to allow access to a share called 'Movies' by mapping username/password credentials to a unix user account (I don't want to allow guest access.) The name of the user is 'user'. I am able to log into the samba server from my Windows 7 PC's via the UNC path \\192.168.1.103 or via \\SCREEN. I am prompted for the the username and password, and when I enter them, it accepts them. (I set this up via smbusers, mapping the password via passwd.) I know the security settings are correct because if I use incorrect credentials at the prompt, it gives me an error.

The problem is that I can't see the shared folder that I have defined in smb.conf. I.e. I just get a blank window in Explorer with no error. And if I try browsing directly to the share via \\192.168.1.103\Movies, it just says "Windows cannot access \192.168.1.103\Movies - Error code: 0x80070035 The network path was not found.". I have a few other observations that might be relevant:

  • The config file in /etc/samba/smb.conf is blank. The one that seems to be applicable is in /usr/share/samba/smb.conf.
  • sudo testparm -s smb.conf > smb.conf.good fails with -bash: smb.conf.good: Permission denied
  • The /var/log/samba/log.smbd doesn't seem to contain any errors:

[2013/12/20 21:35:28,  0] smbd/server.c:1053(main)
  smbd version 3.6.6 started.
  Copyright Andrew Tridgell and the Samba Team 1992-2011
[2013/12/20 21:35:28.852983,  0] smbd/server.c:1109(main)
  standard input is not a socket, assuming -D option

My smb.conf:


[global]
   workgroup = WORKGROUP
   server string = %h server (Samba, Ubuntu)
   dns proxy = no
   log file = /var/log/samba/log.%m
   max log size = 1000
   syslog = 0
   panic action = /usr/share/samba/panic-action %d
   security = user
   username map = /usr/share/samba/smbusers
   usershare prefix deny list = /
   encrypt passwords = no
   passdb backend = tdbsam
   obey pam restrictions = yes
   unix password sync = yes
   passwd program = /usr/bin/passwd %u
   passwd chat = *Enter\snew\s*\spassword:* %n\n *Retype\snew\s*\spassword:* %n\n *password\supdated\ssuccessfully* .
   pam password change = yes
   map to guest = bad user
[Movies]
   path=/home/user/Movies
   browseable = yes
   guest ok = no
   read only = no
   create mask = 0777
   directory mask = 0777
   writeable = yes
   valid users = user
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