topic Re: Formfeeds Ignored On Printer in Operating System - HP-UX

Formfeeds Ignored On Printer

Radnour Acton-Page_1 — Mon, 11 Mar 2002 10:52:09 GMT

We have two continuous form printers, hanging off Hp Jet Directs. When I print from Unix, formfeeds are ignored. I have stopped the queues to see whether the formfeeds are in the files being printed (they are) but when they are printed the printer does not feed and outputs are one after another with no gaps. Any suggestions ?

Re: Formfeeds Ignored On Printer

Steve Steel — Mon, 11 Mar 2002 11:01:01 GMT

Hi

What type of printers and which model script.

You may need to get this printer to formfeed by using the following options:
lp -dname -ol66 -otl60 file

-ol = pagelen 66
-otl60 = textlen 60

Vary as required

Steve Steel

Re: Formfeeds Ignored On Printer

K.Vijayaragavan. — Mon, 11 Mar 2002 11:06:46 GMT

What is the type of file you are printing and what command you are using to take print?

-Vijay

Re: Formfeeds Ignored On Printer

Radnour Acton-Page_1 — Mon, 11 Mar 2002 11:09:42 GMT

Hi Steve

The two printers are a Tally 2240 and an Epson DFX-8500.

I am using the dumbcr model.

Re: Formfeeds Ignored On Printer

S.K. Chan — Mon, 11 Mar 2002 11:17:11 GMT

If you're using a "dumb" printer script model, somewhere in the script it should look like this ..

......
i=1
while [ $i -le $copies ]
do
for file in $files
do
cat "$file" 2>&1
echo "\014\c"
done
i=`expr $i + 1`
done

check if the echo "\014\c" exist.

Re: Formfeeds Ignored On Printer

Radnour Acton-Page_1 — Mon, 11 Mar 2002 11:29:04 GMT

I tried the
# lp -dname -ol66 -otl60 file

but one file butted against the other halfway down the page.

Looked at the script and there is \014\c

I should say we use this script with some lasers and they ff okay.

Re: Formfeeds Ignored On Printer

Carlos Fernandez Riera — Mon, 11 Mar 2002 13:03:41 GMT

Check printers configuration.

Check FF must be followed by CR (FF+CR) or FF+NL.

Just an idea.

Re: Formfeeds Ignored On Printer

K.Vijayaragavan. — Mon, 11 Mar 2002 13:18:40 GMT

Problem must be because of two form feeds (FF) / CR (one by the printer it self and another by the script or the file state).

Skip any of the one and see what happens.

K.Vijay

Re: Formfeeds Ignored On Printer

Steve Steel — Mon, 11 Mar 2002 14:15:02 GMT

Hi

This all looks good but remember

Very important: JetDirect scripts in the interface directory are generic and only handle the LAN process. The 'real' script is located under the interface directory in the model.orig directory. This is the script that controls the printing behavior of the print job.

Make a script containing a line and a formfeed
by adding cntrl L which will get translated as form feed when put to the printer interface

Print it twice and see what happens.

Please post the printer scripts from
/etc/lp/interface
/etc/lp/interface/model.orig

Steve Steel

Re: Formfeeds Ignored On Printer

Radnour Acton-Page_1 — Mon, 11 Mar 2002 14:40:16 GMT

Here's the Interface

Re: Formfeeds Ignored On Printer

Radnour Acton-Page_1 — Mon, 11 Mar 2002 14:40:51 GMT

And this is the other