Joel Hammer tapped away at the keyboard with:
> Describe your printing set up. For example, I am confused when
> you say you are using the ljet4 driver since windows will nicely
> format these documents for you before they are sent to the print
> server. Why aren't you sending these jobs to a raw print queue?
> Post your printcap file.
> Tell us about your print filter. Not using apsfilter isn't much information.
>
> Does this problem occur when you print from your Suse server, or just
> when clients PC print through samba?
>
> This problem might be on the client side or the server side.
> On Fri, May 31, 2002 at 01:50:21AM -0700, Brian W. Carver wrote:
> > I'm stunned that I've had to join this list for this
> > oh-so-common question. Somehow though, no one can solve my
> > printing problem.
> >
> > HP Laserjet 5L running the ljet4 driver on SuSE Linux 8.0.
> > Printer is attached to this SuSE "server". A client computer on
> > Win 98 connects via samba and can print beautifully. Problem:
> > client prints extra blank page at end of every job. Searched
> > web. Common problem. None of the solutions work, mainly because
> > they mostly talk about editing apsfilter, which I'm not using.
> > Some solutions talk about editing /etc/printcap. First tried
> > :sf:\ but when I restarted lpd it complained I should use
> > :ff_separator:\ false instead. (Tried printing anyway and
> > problem still same.) Now with ff_separator set to false lpd will
> > restart without complaining, but problem persists. Tried SuSE
> > list several times. No one can sovle it. Migraine increases.
What do you mean no one can solve it?!
Well, this took me half a day to figure out on a 7.3 system...
it was a Thursday; OK?
Wasted most of the time in a futile search for answers on the www
and was finally forced to use my own brain to figure it out:
Do you have files like /etc/apsfilterrc.y2prn_* ??
Make sure that
PRINT_RAW_SUPPRESS_FORMFEED="yes"
is not commented in them. It's save to edit the file and remove the
comment char.
SuSE does that by default when you use Yast2 to config printers. It
doesn't tell you it's using apsfilter...
P.S.: Don't tell anybody on the SuSE list.
It'd wreck a perfect score as far as I can tell. >;-)
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