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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.carno.net.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!munnari.OZ.AU!news.ecn.uoknor.edu!news.ysu.edu!news.radio.cz!europa.clark.net!news-peer.gsl.net!ix.netcom.com!news From: Richard Scranton <scrantr@ix.netcom.com> Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Re: FreeBSD 2.1 & Samba: Print problem Date: Wed, 28 May 1997 17:46:43 -0400 Organization: LDA Systems, Columbus Lines: 55 Message-ID: <338CA6FB.5E4B@ix.netcom.com> References: <3386083a.75891388@news.lynx.bc.ca> <5mff4l$d40$1@nntp2.ba.best.com> Reply-To: scrantr@ix.netcom.com NNTP-Posting-Host: col-oh29-45.ix.netcom.com Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-NETCOM-Date: Wed May 28 4:52:52 PM CDT 1997 X-Mailer: Mozilla 3.01 (Win95; I) To: chris andrichak <chris@grope.com> Xref: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc:41793 I ran into the same behavior at a customer site when I set up their HP LJ5 printers. The following slightly-hacked printcap corrected it for them. FreeBSD v2.0.5, Samba v1.19.5, LJ5 without postscript. mx#0 - no max size - bitmap fonts from Windows print large spool files sh - suppress burst headers sf - suppress form feeds ===================================================================== # @(#)printcap 5.3 (Berkeley) 6/30/90 lp|local line printer:\ :lp=/dev/lp:sd=/var/spool/output/lpd:lf=/var/log/lpd-errs:mx#0:sh:sf: ~ ~ ===================================================================== chris andrichak wrote: > > 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). > > -- > <><> <><><><> <><> <http://www.grope.com/chris/> <><> <><><><> <><> > "Is a newspaper a push or a pull technology? Well, if you > subscribe, it's push. If you drag your sorry butt out of bed and > walk to the corner to plug a machine -- it's pull (no doubt more > of a pull for some than others)." -- Hans Eisenbeis > <>chris andrichak work<chris@i-planet.com> play<chris@grope.com><> -- =================================================================== Richard Scranton - LDA Systems - Information Management Consulting scrantr@ix.netcom.com Columbus Cincinnati Cleveland Toledo Atlanta