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From: Jeff Higgins <jeff@invalid.invalid>
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Subject: Re: Java printing Margins
Date: Mon, 09 Jun 2014 13:29:49 -0400
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On 06/09/2014 11:30 AM, Martin Gregorie wrote:
> On Sun, 08 Jun 2014 23:32:40 -0400, Jeff Higgins wrote:
>
>> On 06/08/2014 10:50 PM, Jeff Higgins wrote:
>>> On 06/08/2014 11:49 AM, Martin Gregorie wrote:
>>>> Are there any Java classes that support IPP?
>>> java+ipp brings up cups4j, ippclient, jspi and
>>> <http://docs.oracle.com/javase/8/docs/technotes/guides/jps/spec/
> JPSTOC.fm.html>.
>>>
>> I'd be interested in seeing a PrintService that returned a
>> MediaPrintableArea among its supported Attributes, even if the
>> MediaPrintableArea class docs state that "IPP Compatibility:
>> MediaPrintableArea is not an IPP attribute."
>
> LibreOffice + CUPS only shows the following printer properties:
>
> paper size,orientation,duplex,paper tray
>
> for my HP Laserjet 5. I just tried printing a page with all margins set
> to zero, expecting that at least one or two characters would be cut off
> on the left margin but, no, it just left a (guessed 4mm margin all round.
>
> I can't tell if CUPS knows what the required margins are for an LJ5.
> However, something seems to have decided to use the printable
> area rather than the physical page size and to have centred it on the
> physical page. The only think I know for sure is that the CUPS client,
> i.e. Libre Office, knew nothing about required minimal margins. If it did
> know that, then I'd have expected to refuse to set zero margin widths.
>
> My guess, and thats all it is, is that Java would do the same if I'd been
> running an application that printed through cups4j or one of the other
> classes you listed.
>
>
Intersting site, especially the section titled
"PDF is the standard print job format from CUPS 1.6.x on".
<http://www.linuxfoundation.org/collaborate/workgroups/openprinting/group>
Thanks to all for the prompting.