Why does my Canon printer print document pages at ~25% size?
- by Erlend Alvestad
I'm using a Canon PIXMA MP250, and I'm running 12.04 LTS. The printer's been working fine for the couple of months I've been a Linux user. That is, until today.
I just printed a 1-page ODT document from LibreOffice. Instead of filling the sheet, the document occupies only a little less than 25% of the paper, in the top left corner, and the text has also shrunk to something like 5pt.
I looked at the paper format settings for the document and printer, which were set to "letter". I changed these to "A4", hoping that would solve the issue. There was no change, however. I tried printing a different document in LibreOffice and got the same result.
I tried exporting the original document to PDF and printing it through Document Viewer. Same result.
I then printed a web page from Google Chrome. No formatting problems there.
In all cases the print preview looks fine.