Printer Puzzlement

[Linda]

Patton Echols wrote:
> My laptop runs Hardy,
>
> I have a Brother HL-1440 laser printer with the CUPS drivers from 
> brother installed.  The printer is normally attached to an XP box that 
> shares the printer.  I have CUPS configured to see it as two printers, 
> local and network (Using the same drivers, same settings, just the 
> location is different)
>
> If I unplug the usb cable and plug it directly to the laptop, it works 
> fine, prints perfectly.  If I print to it as a network printer, the 
> print image is shifted down the page about an inch and runs off the 
> bottom. 
>
> Has anyone run into this?  I assume that XP is doing something to the 
> print stream, but I would not know where to begin.  I have tried a few 
> google searches, but all lead back to problems folks are having with 
> installing the brother drivers, or problems in the windows environment.  
> The windows sharing help is useless.
>
> Thanks for any thoughts.
>  
>
>   
Does the setup through the XP  have the paper size set as A4 instead of 
Letter? I had one user that Open Office insisted on default paper size 
as A4 and it had a similar result. Just an idea.
          Linda