need help printing UPS shipping labels

John Aldrich jmaldrich at yahoo.com
Wed Aug 14 19:36:25 UTC 2013


Quoting "Dr. Michael J. Chudobiak" <mjc at avtechpulse.com>:

> Does anyone here successfully print UPS shipping labels from the UPS
> online shipping tool?
>
> I find that when I try this with Firefox, epiphany, or Chrome on F19,
> the barcode-containing section of the label is generated as a 728x416
> image.
>
> If I use Firefox or IE on Windows, the same label is generated as a
> 1400x800 image.
>
> The UPS scanners won't recognize the barcodes in the smaller images, so
> I have to print from Windows.
>
> Any ideas? Is this some odd javascript default-image size setting that
> differs with OS?
>
It may be a driver-specific thing. Are you using the same printer on  
Windows as under Linux? I print from Linux to my Windows machine using  
the shared printer off my Windows box and it works fine.


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