We’ve got this huge HP DesignJet Z9 printer, for printing posters. Except… I got the latest hplips installed, it knows this printer… but there are no poster-sized settings.

Now, I’ve started hacking the .ppd, as I did six year ago for the old poster printer, but it seems, after a good bit of googling, that it would be easier, when I hit print from okular, and get the dialog window, to go to properties->page, and set it to custom, and set the width and height… except I can’t: both width and height are grayed out.

Now, I’m running as me. For reasons I don’t need to get into, I shouldn’t be doing this as root.

Anyone know what I need to modify to all me to set this? Hacking the .ppd is half a day or a day of tedious work.

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