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I recently did a fresh install of Mojave 10.14.6 on my new 2018 Mac Mini. During the setup I accepted the Canon 920 series printer driver that was offered by System Preferences. Everything looked pretty good until I tried to print a letter size borderless document — the PageSetup and Print dialogs didn’t list that size as an option. In fact they didn’t list a lot of page sizes that are available on my other Macs running Mojave 10.14.6.

After some investigation/comparison I realized that the cups Postscript Printer Description file in the fresh install was missing the info describing the missing page sizes. So i reset the Printing System by right clicking the Canon MX920 series in System Prefs>Printers & Scanners. Then I installed the MX920 series drivers using the driver file downloaded from the Canon site.

Here are the tell tale lines from the two .ppd files…
Apple's installed .ppd
*OpenUI *PageSize/Media Size: PickOne *OrderDependency: 10 AnySetup *PageSize *DefaultPageSize: 4x6 *PageSize 3.5x5: "<</PageSize[252.0000 360.0000]/ImagingBBox null/Orientation 0>>setpagedevice" *PageSize 3.5x5.Fullbleed: "<</PageSize[252.0000 360.0000]/ImagingBBox null/Orientation 0>>setpagedevice" *PageSize 4x6: "<</PageSize[288.0000 432.0000]/ImagingBBox null/Orientation 0>>setpagedevice" *PageSize 4x6.Fullbleed: "<</PageSize[288.0000 432.0000]/ImagingBBox null/Orientation 0>>setpagedevice" *PageSize Legal: "<</PageSize[612.0000 1008.0000]/ImagingBBox null/Orientation 0>>setpagedevice" *PageSize Letter: "<</PageSize[612.0000 792.0000]/ImagingBBox null/Orientation 0>>setpagedevice" *PageSize Postcard: "<</PageSize[283.4646 419.5276]/ImagingBBox null/Orientation 0>>setpagedevice" *PageSize Postcard.Fullbleed: "<</PageSize[283.4646 419.5276]/ImagingBBox null/Orientation 0>>setpagedevice" *CloseUI: *PageSize

Canon's installed .ppd
*OpenUI *PageSize/Media Size: PickOne *OrderDependency: 10 AnySetup *PageSize *DefaultPageSize: 4x6 *PageSize 200x148mm: "<</PageSize[566.9291 419.5276]/ImagingBBox null/Orientation 0>>setpagedevice" *PageSize 3.5x5: "<</PageSize[252.0000 360.0000]/ImagingBBox null/Orientation 0>>setpagedevice" *PageSize 3.5x5.Fullbleed: "<</PageSize[252.0000 360.0000]/ImagingBBox null/Orientation 0>>setpagedevice" *PageSize 4x6: "<</PageSize[288.0000 432.0000]/ImagingBBox null/Orientation 0>>setpagedevice" *PageSize 4x6.Fullbleed: "<</PageSize[288.0000 432.0000]/ImagingBBox null/Orientation 0>>setpagedevice" *PageSize 5x7: "<</PageSize[360.0000 504.0000]/ImagingBBox null/Orientation 0>>setpagedevice" *PageSize 5x7.Fullbleed: "<</PageSize[360.0000 504.0000]/ImagingBBox null/Orientation 0>>setpagedevice" *PageSize 8x10: "<</PageSize[576.0000 720.0000]/ImagingBBox null/Orientation 0>>setpagedevice" *PageSize 8x10.Fullbleed: "<</PageSize[576.0000 720.0000]/ImagingBBox null/Orientation 0>>setpagedevice" *PageSize A4: "<</PageSize[595.2756 841.8898]/ImagingBBox null/Orientation 0>>setpagedevice" *PageSize A4.Fullbleed: "<</PageSize[595.2756 841.8898]/ImagingBBox null/Orientation 0>>setpagedevice" *PageSize A5: "<</PageSize[419.5276 595.2756]/ImagingBBox null/Orientation 0>>setpagedevice" *PageSize B5: "<</PageSize[515.9055 728.5039]/ImagingBBox null/Orientation 0>>setpagedevice" *PageSize Env10: "<</PageSize[296.9858 684.0000]/ImagingBBox null/Orientation 0>>setpagedevice" *PageSize EnvDL: "<</PageSize[311.8110 623.6220]/ImagingBBox null/Orientation 0>>setpagedevice" *PageSize Legal: "<</PageSize[612.0000 1008.0000]/ImagingBBox null/Orientation 0>>setpagedevice" *PageSize Letter: "<</PageSize[612.0000 792.0000]/ImagingBBox null/Orientation 0>>setpagedevice" *PageSize Letter.Fullbleed: "<</PageSize[612.0000 792.0000]/ImagingBBox null/Orientation 0>>setpagedevice" *PageSize Postcard: "<</PageSize[283.4646 419.5276]/ImagingBBox null/Orientation 0>>setpagedevice" *PageSize Postcard.Fullbleed: "<</PageSize[283.4646 419.5276]/ImagingBBox null/Orientation 0>>setpagedevice" *CloseUI: *PageSize

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