Print on continuous paper on HP Deskjet

[cobito]

Hello everyone. I am trying to print on a piece of paper that is 21x65cm (A4 width, two and a half times longer). When I print something from Linux, it prints up to a little more than half of the strip and from Windows directly it does not print.

The printer is an HP Deskjet F4580, the typical all-in-one that I bought almost 10 years ago. I have been looking around and it seems that you have to enable the "banner" type of paper which is the continuous paper that was used in the needle printers.

Needless to say that this type of paper is not among the available repertoire in either Linux or Windows. I do not know if there is some limitation in size with this type of printer or what. I also do not know what type of domestic printer (in price), inkjet, etc., I should buy if I want to print this type of thing.

Before thinking about buying a new printer, I want to try to do it with this one.

Thank you!

[Sylver]

@cobito Hello boss,

I've been looking around and I've seen that there are ways to modify the default paper sizes that the printer uses, have you tried?

Best regards!

[cobito]

Solved.

@Sylver

Leaving Linux aside, I started looking into why it wouldn't print on Windows and it turns out it wouldn't print anything: not A4 documents, not notepad, nothing. Curiously, it would print the test page, which is why I had blamed the page format for the problem. Anyway, I uninstalled and reinstalled the printer but nothing.

The printer is connected via Wifi and since I haven't used Windows to print practically since the parallel port era, I have absolutely no experience with Wifi printers. But anyway, it seems that Windows' management of printers connected via something other than USB must not be the best, at least not in HP.

Anyway, I connected it via cable and it started printing on Windows. I did the thing with the custom format but it went back to the Linux thing: it prints up to a bit more than the strip and then releases the paper.

The curious thing is that when I accepted the changes to the settings, when I went back to make sure the changes had been applied, the default values appeared. So I went to the printer administration and set the custom paper format as the default format. And then it printed the whole strip.

On Linux I have been unable to set a custom format by default, although this may be more of a failure of the Mageia tool than of the driver. I haven't found anything for this in CUPS. For now I will use Windows; the truth is that Linux's printer management sometimes gets on my nerves. Printers in general get on my nerves:

Thanks @Sylver for the reply.

[Sylver]

@cobito said in Print on continuous paper in HP Deskjet:

sometimes it drives me crazy. Printers in general m

You're welcome boss, I'm glad you were able to solve it. I know from contacts with architect friends that it was possible to modify the size and save the changes (eventually it was simple, on other occasions a bit more complex), but I didn't know that your printer was on WiFi and that this would be the problem. It's still curious, although at least now we have the experience for future occasions.

Best regards!

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