After months of just dealing with my printing being “messed up.” I discovered the tiny file /etc/papersize, which contained only two characters — “a4.” After replacing those with “letter” today my life has improved noticeably. Of course, this wasn’t an easy-to-find system configuration — maybe they should consider adding it to the GNOME system config tools.
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An Ergodic Walk 
I’m so jealous of the exciting life you lead. :-p
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Yeah, Fedora also defaults to A4, and the system does some bizarre page shrinking thing if you tell dvips to use letter size. What a pain.