Letter? No, A4. (pause) Letter? No... A4.

Printing is not fun. What's the opposite of fun? It's that.

I bought an Epson printer which supports AirPrint, among other transmission formats like Google Cloud Print, and some Epson thing they've done on their own. I set up the printer, no problem. Print via wired connection - it wants Letter paper. I'm in Japan. No-one uses Letter. Why is it asking for Letter? I think it is related to system language somewhere on my wife's Win7 machine. It's a Japanese Win7 machine, but I may have told it somewhere to prioritize US English, because Epson's installer ran in English. I don't know why.

Anyway. It did.

I switched the PC's printer default to want A4 paper. That worked. Then I told the printer to print its own report. "Letter, please." I burrow down all the printer's own onscreen menu items until I find its internal preference: Letter. OK, set that to A4 as well. Now the printer knows it prefers A4 paper.

Print from iPad: "Insert Letter." WTF. Where is Letter defined on my iPad? I don't have a page setup option on iOS Safari's Print my iPad. The printer defaults to A4, so why is it asking for Letter?

It turns out FileMaker Go, at least, allows me to perform page setup before acting, so I was able to set A4 there and get on with things. Now I have to figure out why it's printing two pages and bleeding off the side, but that's a minor issue.

Anyway, yeah: Printers. I hate them.