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Extra blank page at end of jobs occurs ONLY when printing from clients
(regardless of their being Win or linux clients). When printing from
Suse server that the printer is attached to, there's no extra form feed.
When using SuSE to set up printers in 8.0 it chooses lpdfilter by
default. I haven't changed anything about that.
The HP LJ5L can print at 300dpi or 600dpi and I have two names for the
same printer depending on which dpi I want. "lp" is 300 "printer1" is
600 and is almost exclusively the one I use.
My /etc/printcap:
lp:\
:cm=lpdfilter drv=upp method=auto color=yes:\
:lp=/dev/lp0:\
:sd=/var/spool/lpd/lp:\
:lf=/var/spool/lpd/lp/log:\
:af=/var/spool/lpd/lp/acct:\
:if=/usr/lib/lpdfilter/bin/if:\
:la@:\
:tr=:cl:sh:
printer1:\
:cm=lpdfilter drv=upp method=auto color=yes:\
:lp=/dev/lp0:\
:sd=/var/spool/lpd/printer1:\
:lf=/var/spool/lpd/printer1/log:\
:af=/var/spool/lpd/printer1/acct:\
:if=/usr/lib/lpdfilter/bin/if:\
:la@:\
:tr=:cl:sh:
:ff_separator=false:\
As for why I'm using the ljet4 driver, I couldn't tell you. When setting
up printers with Yast2 in SuSE 8, I just went with the flow and picked
the defaults. Everything works beautifully except for this blasted extra
form feed. As far as I know I might be sending jobs to a raw print queue
from clients, I wouldn't know how to tell.
I've looked for a solution from the client side, but within Win the
option to not print a page between jobs is not even available (it's
greyed out), and as I said, I get the same problem from linux clients
(also on Suse 8) on the network as well, so that struck me as being more
suggestive of a server-side solution, but I wouldn't know for sure.
I also found a file called /etc/lpdfilter/HP-escapes that looks
potentially interesting, but I don't understand it. Here it is:
- ---
This file describes some common escape sequernces for HP DeskJet
printers. They may used in the configuration file
/etc/lpdfilter/<queue>/conf for printer queues for HP DeskJets.
* Line termination settings
~ \033 & k # G
~ with the values #
0 = CR=CR ; LF=LF ; FF=FF (default, which is DOS ASCII mode)
1 = CR=CR+LF; LF=LF ; FF=FF
2 = CR=CR ; LF=CR+LF; FF=CR+FF (to print ASCII files from Linux systems)
3 = CR=CR+LF; LF=CR+LF; FF=CR+FF
* The quality setup
~ \033 ( s # Q
~ with the values #
1 = draft = 240cps
2 = letter = 120cps (default)
* Text scale mode (ignored in landscape mode)
~ \033 & k # W
~ with the values #
5 = off (default)
6 = on
* Perforation skip mode
~ \033 & l # L
~ with the values #
0 = off = 0.0 in Top Margin
1 = on = 1/2 in Top Margin (default)
* Left margin
~ \033 & a # L
~ with the values # = column number
~ default = 0 = 1/8 in left margin
* Pitch
~ \033 ( s # H
~ with the values # = cpi (characters per inch)
~ default = 10 characters per inch
- ---
Any help greatly appreciated. Still pulling hair out over here!
Joel Hammer wrote:
| Describe your printing set up. [snip]
|>
|>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.
|>
|>Who wants to waste paper? Why is this stupid form feed the default?
|>PLEASE help me get rid of it. I really feel I'm losing my mind over this.
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Brian
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