/etc/papersize

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Have you spent years of your live wondering why your Debian GNU/Linux distro keeps trying to do all print jobs with “letter” size?

Discover the mighty and wonderful /etc/papersize!

# man papersize

# echo a4 > /etc/papersize

If only all my problems were so simple to resolve…

Tags linux printing debian

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