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Hardware/Brother

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Troubleshooting

With proper paper setting, printout is shifted or cropped

This may happen because of the way the brother drivers are made, it seems there is a bug in the handling of paper type, and it does not only affect NixOS.

To see if this problem affects you, look at the `rc` file for your printer, in the package for your drivers.

/nix/store/.../opt/brother/Printers/[model]/inf/br[model]rc

There will be a line as such:

PaperType=A4

The problem can be inverted depending on the driver, some will default to A4 and some to Letter.

One way this can be worked-around is by patching the rc file at build time[1]. This will not allow switching paper type at runtime.