printing and extra form feed...

[Stephen L Arnold]

On 15 Mar 99, Luke Miller <millerlu at peak.org> had questions about 
printing and extra form feed...:  

> I am trying to print from a Linux box to a Windows 98 box.  I am using the
> smbprint script and that is working ok, expect that it doesn't give a form
> feed at the end of the print job to cause the paper to be ejected.  Any
> ideas on how to make it do so?

You need to send an EOF to the printer with each job.  It depends 
on the printer and on your Linux distribution how trivial it is to 
fix it.  RedHat's Printtool has a setting for that (I can remember 
writing some PCL escape code filters a few years back when I had to 
print to a Netware queue with an HPLJ3).

You can edit your /etc/printcap and printfilters by hand, but 
you'll need to read the docs to find the right switch.  It's like 
Jeff says when I ask a question about a particular compiler:  Try 
it and see...

Steve


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