Bottom of page cut-off when printing

[Alfred]

I have an Epson Stylus Color 800 auto detected and runs fine except for the fact that printing at the bottom of every page is cut-off approx 3/4 inch from the edge of the paper. This occurs in everything (printing webpages and documents).

When running the "print-conf-gui" and printing the US Letter test page the bottom 0.5" border is not printed - although the test page says "it is not unusual for the 0.5" bottom margin not to show. Many printers cannot print that close to the bottom of the page."

Surely there is a way of fixing this problem?

[crackers]

Set your printer output margins - you may have to do this in several places, depending upon the software you're using. The obvious place to start is the printer driver configuration (system-config-printers) itself.

Printers simply cannot fill up a full page. There are margins where the printhead simply cannot go - and that's designed into the hardware.

[Alfred]

Agreed, but would you not expect the driver to take care of this (i.e. informing the OS of its capabilities and limitations)? As I new user perhaps I am too naive in thinking this. "system-config-printers" is not available for me (bash: commmand not found). I have tried "printconf-gui" to adjust values, using trial and error to no avail. How to I get "system-config-printers"?

[crackers]

Same command - just me mis-remembering.

As far as I know, every single program that prints "stuff" manages it's own margins for printing. Many of them will get the initial setup of print margins from the printer drivers (if possible), but none of them prevent you from trying to print outside - or "too far" inside - the printable area according to the printer. It may be that the program you're printing from has a bottom margin set to .75"

[Alfred]

Gotcha, thanks.