Ok, so I have a Samsung USB printer connected to a desktop PC. I thought I would share this PC in the network so I could print from my eeePC.
First, enable Samba. I used the steps which I previously described here. Then, install Samsung driver, described here. Finally, add a network shared printer in the eeePC, using “smb://…”.
Reboot, and all is working, except the test print from the eeePC was cropped in a weird way. From what I could tell, it looked like the papersize is incorrect. The standard size used here is “A4″, but the printing looked to be “Letter”. I checked and rechecked every settings I could find thru the GUI. Everything said “A4″.
Mmm. Something is broken somewhere. Or there is a “hidden” setting not exposed by the GUI. Finally, I found it:
gksudo gedit /etc/papersize
The file has one word: “letter”. I changed it to “a4″. Voila! The test printing is now OK. No more cropping.
So, what the hell is “/etc/papersize”? Probably a legacy configuration someone forgot to remove or integrate into the GUI setup? And now it is causing a weird breakage.
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