Re: off topic Question of the day..

From	Gene Heskett <gheskett@shentel.net>
Newsgroups	linux.debian.user
Subject	Re: off topic Question of the day..
Date	2016-07-09 06:50 +0200
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On Friday 08 July 2016 21:35:30 Gene Heskett wrote:

> Greetings all;
>
> I bought, about a month ago, a big Brother MFC, proclaimed that it
> could do 11x17 prints when single sheet fed from the slot in the rear.
>
> Its a Brother MFC-J6920DW.
> So having a rockhopper output file that has been exported as a pdf by
> inkscape, I ordered up a ream of 11x17 28lb paper from wallies.
>
> But I'll be switched if I can find a setting anyplace that will make
> it use a sheet of it fed thru the rear slot/door.
>
> Anybody here got the magic incantation to keep it from shrinking the
> image to unusability on the paper in the two front trays?
>
> Thanks.
>
> Cheers, Gene Heskett

Call in the St. Bernards, I found it. With the pdf loaded into evince I 
was able to set "current page" in its printer dialog, then it called the 
system gizmo, and on the 2nd tab was a paper selection pulldown that had 
the 11x17 selection available. And darned if it didn't work!  Biggest 
problem was getting the paper started straight enough.  Very poor and 
downright flimsy guidance hardware for the rear big sheet/odd size input 
port.

Job done and now I know how. ;-)

Cheers, Gene Heskett
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off topic Question of the day.. Gene Heskett <gheskett@shentel.net> - 2016-07-09 03:40 +0200
  Re: off topic Question of the day.. Gene Heskett <gheskett@shentel.net> - 2016-07-09 06:50 +0200
    Re: off topic Question of the day.. Doug <dmcgarrett@optonline.net> - 2016-07-09 23:30 +0200
      Re: off topic Question of the day.. Gene Heskett <gheskett@shentel.net> - 2016-07-10 00:30 +0200
  Re: off topic Question of the day.. Jörg-Volker Peetz <jvpeetz@web.de> - 2016-07-09 09:00 +0200
    Re: off topic Question of the day.. Gene Heskett <gheskett@shentel.net> - 2016-07-09 14:00 +0200
      Re: off topic Question of the day.. Jörg-Volker Peetz <jvpeetz@web.de> - 2016-07-10 00:40 +0200
        Re: off topic Question of the day.. Gene Heskett <gheskett@shentel.net> - 2016-07-10 01:20 +0200
          Re: off topic Question of the day.. rhkramer@gmail.com - 2016-07-10 04:00 +0200
            Re: off topic Question of the day.. Gene Heskett <gheskett@shentel.net> - 2016-07-10 06:20 +0200
              Re: off topic Question of the day.. Lisi Reisz <lisi.reisz@gmail.com> - 2016-07-10 15:10 +0200
                Re: off topic Question of the day.. Gene Heskett <gheskett@shentel.net> - 2016-07-10 20:10 +0200
                Re: off topic Question of the day.. John Hasler <jhasler@newsguy.com> - 2016-07-10 20:30 +0200
                Re: off topic Question of the day.. Gene Heskett <gheskett@shentel.net> - 2016-07-10 20:50 +0200
                Re: off topic Question of the day.. Lisi Reisz <lisi.reisz@gmail.com> - 2016-07-10 21:10 +0200
                Re: off topic Question of the day.. Gene Heskett <gheskett@shentel.net> - 2016-07-11 00:30 +0200
                Re: off topic Question of the day.. David Wright <deblis@lionunicorn.co.uk> - 2016-07-11 02:40 +0200
                Re: off topic Question of the day.. rhkramer@gmail.com - 2016-07-11 03:30 +0200
                Re: off topic Question of the day.. Doug <dmcgarrett@optonline.net> - 2016-07-11 05:30 +0200
                Re: off topic Question of the day.. David Wright <deblis@lionunicorn.co.uk> - 2016-07-11 06:10 +0200
                Re: off topic Question of the day.. Lisi Reisz <lisi.reisz@gmail.com> - 2016-07-11 13:20 +0200
                Re: off topic Question of the day.. Gene Heskett <gheskett@shentel.net> - 2016-07-11 13:50 +0200
                Re: off topic Question of the day.. Dennis Wicks <wix@mgssub.com> - 2016-07-14 18:30 +0200
                Re: off topic Question of the day.. David Wright <deblis@lionunicorn.co.uk> - 2016-07-16 04:00 +0200
                Re: off topic Question of the day.. John Hasler <jhasler@newsguy.com> - 2016-07-16 05:50 +0200
                Re: off topic Question of the day.. Lisi Reisz <lisi.reisz@gmail.com> - 2016-07-16 11:00 +0200
                Re: off topic Question of the day.. Curt <curty@free.fr> - 2016-07-16 13:40 +0200
                Re: off topic Question of the day.. John Hasler <jhasler@newsguy.com> - 2016-07-16 14:30 +0200
                Re: off topic Question of the day.. John Hasler <jhasler@newsguy.com> - 2016-07-16 15:00 +0200
                Re: off topic Question of the day.. Curt <curty@free.fr> - 2016-07-16 15:50 +0200
                Re: off topic Question of the day.. Lisi Reisz <lisi.reisz@gmail.com> - 2016-07-16 21:10 +0200
                Re: off topic Question of the day.. Andre Majorel <aym-naibed@teaser.fr> - 2016-07-17 10:00 +0200
                Re: off topic Question of the day.. Lisi Reisz <lisi.reisz@gmail.com> - 2016-07-16 21:00 +0200
                Re: off topic Question of the day.. David Wright <deblis@lionunicorn.co.uk> - 2016-07-17 02:40 +0200
                Re: off topic Question of the day.. John Hasler <jhasler@newsguy.com> - 2016-07-17 02:50 +0200
                Re: off topic Question of the day.. David Wright <deblis@lionunicorn.co.uk> - 2016-07-17 07:40 +0200
                Straying further OT, Re: off topic Question of the day.. David Wright <deblis@lionunicorn.co.uk> - 2016-07-11 05:50 +0200
              Re: off topic Question of the day.. Lisi Reisz <lisi.reisz@gmail.com> - 2016-07-10 21:00 +0200
                Re: off topic Question of the day.. Gene Heskett <gheskett@shentel.net> - 2016-07-11 00:30 +0200
                Re: off topic Question of the day.. Lisi Reisz <lisi.reisz@gmail.com> - 2016-07-11 00:50 +0200
                Re: off topic Question of the day.. Gene Heskett <gheskett@shentel.net> - 2016-07-11 01:00 +0200
              Re: off topic Question of the day.. David Wright <deblis@lionunicorn.co.uk> - 2016-07-10 23:30 +0200
                Re: off topic Question of the day.. Gene Heskett <gheskett@shentel.net> - 2016-07-11 01:00 +0200
                Re: off topic Question of the day.. Lisi Reisz <lisi.reisz@gmail.com> - 2016-07-11 01:00 +0200
          Re: off topic Question of the day.. Curt <curty@free.fr> - 2016-07-10 10:50 +0200
            Re: off topic Question of the day.. Gene Heskett <gheskett@shentel.net> - 2016-07-10 14:20 +0200
              Re: off topic Question of the day.. Curt <curty@free.fr> - 2016-07-10 16:10 +0200
  Re: off topic Question of the day.. deloptes <deloptes@gmail.com> - 2016-07-10 12:40 +0200
    Re: off topic Question of the day.. Gene Heskett <gheskett@shentel.net> - 2016-07-10 19:40 +0200
      Re: off topic Question of the day.. Brian <ad44@cityscape.co.uk> - 2016-07-10 20:40 +0200
      Re: paper sizes (was: off topic Question of the day..) Felix Miata <mrmazda@earthlink.net> - 2016-07-10 23:50 +0200

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