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From: chris@grope.com (chris andrichak)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Re: FreeBSD 2.1 & Samba: Print problem
Date: 27 May 1997 20:11:01 GMT
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To: ddunlop@redpoint.com (Don Dunlop)
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In article <3386083a.75891388@news.lynx.bc.ca>,
ddunlop@redpoint.com (Don Dunlop) writes:
> Here it is... I have a FreeBSD 2.1 box running Samba to provide
> connections to my Win96 system. I have an HP laser printer connected
> to /dev/lp0 on the BSD system which is shared through Samba and to
> which I can print from Win95. So far so good. Works just fine thank
> you.
>
> The silly problem is that all my Windows print jobs seem to have an
> extra form feed tacked on and eject and eject an extra page when the
> job completes. I end up with blank pages between all my print jobs.
> Is there a simple way to solve this?
Ran into this same problem recently with an HP 6P. The only thing that
could figure out was that it was the printer. I swapped in a Lexmark
and it didn't print the extra page. I played with it for a while and
couldn't find any reason in unix as to why it would print the extra
page (the HP, that is).
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