Comment 8 for bug 630635

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Rick-firefang (rick-firefang) wrote :

The initial post (2"x12" pages getting cropped to 2"x2" prints on an Epilog laser printer) is fixed in merge request 407: https://gitlab.com/inkscape/inkscape/merge_requests/407

The rest of the comments (printers choking on custom page sizes) were fixed in commit eaa134e8ea9e71489af1b5090bdee122d5b8d659.

There's two different problems here: some printers don't understand landscape mode, and some printers don't understand custom page sizes.

Unfortunately, there's some mutual exclusivity here: the printers in the second case require you to use landscape mode whenever the page is wider than it is tall, and the printers in the first case require you to *never* use landscape mode.

So there's an edge case here: if you're using a printer that doesn't understand landscape mode, *and* you're using a standard page size, *and* your page is wider than it is tall, your image will be cropped. Best practice would be not to use standard page sizes on these devices, but instead set the page size to your print bed size (ie, 24"x12" on an Epilog Zing or 32"x20" on an Epilog Fusion).