Tuesday, October 27, 2015

ubuntu - Force scaling when printing an alien paper size

Is there any way to automatically rescale a print job to a paper size supported by the printer even if the application printing has used a different paper size?


I have lot of problems with different clients trying to print US Letter on a printer with A4 paper. It is very easy to miss setting up the correct paper size and then the printer job fails and the printer has to be physically accessed to reset the error. Also any jobs submitted after the error is silently ignored resulting in missing printouts.


I am using Ubuntu and CUPS together with a Konica Minolta network printer.


Ideal CUPS would silently accept any paper size and rescale it to fit into A4 paper and send it to the printer. Is this possible somehow?


Any ideas?

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