Brother HL-1240 Margin Problem When Printing Test Page

[David Schaller]

Binary package hint: brother-lpr-drivers-laser1

I recently installed the brother-lpr-drivers-laser1 and wrapper packages in Hardy for my HL-1240. Everything went smoothly until I tried to print. The margins on the test page are all completely wrong, cutting off much of the page. Printing from other applications seems to give the same same results. I think I've made sure that letter sized paper is specified everywhere. I've gone into localhost:631 directly and checked all settings.

[Thomas Hotz (thotz-deactivatedaccount)]

I'm sorry that nobody has cared about your bug yet, are you still affected? Thank you for telling us!

[David Schaller (bach-leipzig)]

Wow, I had nearly forgotten about this! I retired my HL-1240 a couple years ago, but as I recall what I eventually ended up doing was downloading the Brother drivers directly from the Brother website and I was able to get those to work. The problem had something to do with an inability to change the page size from A4 to Letter and this was causing the margins to be off.

[penalvch (penalvch)]

David Schaller, this bug report is being closed due to your last comment https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/brother-lpr-drivers-laser1/+bug/238129/comments/2 regarding you no longer have the hardware. For future reference you can manage the status of your own bugs by clicking on the current status in the yellow line and then choosing a new status in the revealed drop down box. You can learn more about bug statuses at https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Bugs/Status. Thank you again for taking the time to report this bug and helping to make Ubuntu better. Please submit any future bugs you may find.