Setting up Folio/F4/FanFoldGermanLegal/8.5X13 page size HP Laser Jet 1020 printer Linux Mint Petra

If you have HP Laser Jet 1020 printer attached on Linux system and looking for the way to print your work with paper size Folio or F4 or 8.5 X 13, you may need a little work to do and this way save my work properly (even if i use ms office 2010 with wine).

Here is the simple way to add Folio/F4/FanFoldGermanLegal/8.5X13 page size option on HP Laser Jet 1020 printer (my sistem is Linux Mint 16 “Petra” with Cinnamon desktop) :

Open up terminal and type this command (without quote) “sudo gedit /etc/cups/ppd/HP-LaserJet-1020.ppd” and add the following option :

*PageSize FanFoldGermanLegal/8.5x13: "<</PageSize [612 936] /ImagingBBox null /MediaClass (8.5X13)>> setpagedevice"

*PageRegion FanFoldGermanLegal/8.5x13: "<</PageSize [612 936] /ImagingBBox null /MediaClass (8.5X13)>> setpagedevice"

*ImageableArea FanFoldGermanLegal/8.5x13: "12 12 600 924"

*PaperDimension FanFoldGermanLegal/8.5x13: "612 936"

Place that options on its section, just follow the first sentences (PageSize, Pageregion, Imageablearea, Paperdimension) and don't forget to save it...

Or if using the GUI way, just press “Alt+F2” and type “gksudo gedit /etc/cups/ppd/HP-LaserJet-1020.ppd” and the next step is adding the four options above.

For another distro, just find the ppd file name HP-LaserJet-1020.ppd and add that options.