OpenSuSE 11.2 and VMWare Printing

To add a printer to the VMWare VM:

• Ensure the VM is secured.
• Edit Virtual Machine Settings
• Add ...
• Printer
• Power on This Virtual Machine

There are then two choices hp#1 and OfficeJet_6400. hp#1 complains about margins and doesn't print even if you answer yes to the query. Officejet_6400 doesn't complain but prints a header page and then prints the page half an inch too low.

OK, try using these on just plain Linux:
hp#1
No change, it does not print

Officejet_6400
prints the header
%% [ ProductName: GPL Ghostscript ]%%
resulting in the actual print being again too low. We may be able to suppress the header, which would fix both problems.

So it is not a VMware or Windows problem per se, rather something with the Linux setup.

Checking YaST showed that printing was not enabled for hp#1. So we enabled it. Now it prints (all three previous attempts) without the header in the correct position.

Problem solved.