Brother 2070N Problem

[Aaronsgwc]

I've got a minor problem with my Brother 2070N network printer. I installed it according to a tutorial on this forum and it seems to be working. The problem is that when it prints anything the margins are all screwed up. When I print a test page it says that the page size is 8.29in by 11.69in. That doesn't seem right. The bottom is also cut off.

Oddly enough it will only print through the KOffice suite, it won't print through Open Office at all. When I print through KWord it puts about a two inch margin on top of the page, and the bottom is right at the bottom of the paper. It doesn't really lose anything, but the margins are really screwed up and I do a lot of business through my laptop. I can't seem to find a fix that works for this. Any suggestions?

I'm using Kubuntu 7.10 (Gutsy), and my driver versions are:

Cups wrapper: 2.0.1-2
LDR: 1.1.2-3

I'm using a Dell Inspiron 1501

I got them from the Brother site, I did all the symbolic linking and everything.

Thanks,

Aaron

[RelativelyQuantum]

You probably already tried this, but can't you change the margin settings right from within your word processing program? If it's a consistent margin error, you could just adjust the print margin settings to compensate.

Just a thought.

[Shazaam]

If the cups daemon is running you might be able to configure the settings you need. Open a webbrowser and type this into the address box (without the quotes):

"http://localhost:631/"

[dcstar]

Originally Posted by Aaronsgwc I've got a minor problem with my Brother 2070N network printer. I installed it according to a tutorial on this forum and it seems to be working. The problem is that when it prints anything the margins are all screwed up. When I print a test page it says that the page size is 8.29in by 11.69in. That doesn't seem right. The bottom is also cut off. Oddly enough it will only print through the KOffice suite, it won't print through Open Office at all. When I print through KWord it puts about a two inch margin on top of the page, and the bottom is right at the bottom of the paper. It doesn't really lose anything, but the margins are really screwed up and I do a lot of business through my laptop. I can't seem to find a fix that works for this. Any suggestions? ........

http://openprinting.org/show_printer...other-HL-2070N

[Aaronsgwc]

That link above (http://openprinting.org/show_printer...other-HL-2070N) did the trick. I kinda figured the settings were off in some other file I didn't know about. It was defaulting to A4 in the /usr/local/Brother/inf/brHL2070Nrc file, even though I had changed it to Letter everywhere else. All I had to do was change the paper type A4 to "Letter" and it works just fine now.

The CUPS Daemon and everything else was also working fine beforehand.

Thanks for the help!

-Aaron

[Aaronsgwc]

Problem Solved. Do I need to change the subject to SOLVED or something?