topic Re: Printing blank page after the trailer between print jobs. in Operating System - OpenVMS

Printing blank page after the trailer between print jobs.

Jorge Cocomess — Tue, 07 Feb 2006 09:55:51 GMT

Greetings,

When I print to a VMS print queue, I get a header, trailer, and then a blank page. It seems though that I am getting this on all of my print queues. I would like to eliminate this blank page. Here is the configuration of one of my print queues;
Printer queue HP5SI_FIN, idle, on CROW::"HP5SI_FIN:9100", mounted form A
/BASE_PRIORITY=4 /DEFAULT=(FLAG=ONE,FORM=DEFAULT,TRAILER) /LIBRARY=HP
Lowercase /OWNER=[SYSTEM] /PROCESSOR=TCPIP$TELNETSYM
/PROTECTION=(S:M,O:D,G:R,W:S) /SEPARATE=(RESET=(HP_RESET))

Any ideas on how I should proceed?

Thanks!!

J

Re: Printing blank page after the trailer between print jobs.

Ian Miller. — Tue, 07 Feb 2006 10:04:29 GMT

See
http://search.hp.com/query.html?lang=eng&qp=url%3Ah71000.www7.hp.com/wizard/&qt=blank+pages&la=en&hps=OpenVMS+Ask+the+Wizard&hpr=http%3A//h71000.www7.hp.com/wizard/index.html&lk=2&ctry=us&submit.y=6&hpo=hphqglobal%2Chphqopenvms&hpn=return+to+OpenVMS+Ask+the+Wizard+page&hpl=1&hpc=1&hpa=http%3A//search.hp.com/help.html&uf=0&submit.x=8

Re: Printing blank page after the trailer between print jobs.

Jorge Cocomess — Tue, 07 Feb 2006 15:15:16 GMT

Ian - These links are not very helpful and very confusuing process. If you know the symtom and have answers for it then that's great. Some of us are new to VMS and need a little hand holding more than other.

The real answer is: DEFINE/SYSTEM TCPIP$TELNETSYM_SUPPRESS_FORMFEEDS 35
$ stop/que/next Name_of Your_Que
$ Start/que Name_of_Your_Que

That's how you take care of the blank pages with OpenVMS 7.3-2

J

Re: Printing blank page after the trailer between print jobs.

Jorge Cocomess — Tue, 07 Feb 2006 15:18:17 GMT

Re: Printing blank page after the trailer between print jobs.

Karl Rohwedder — Tue, 07 Feb 2006 15:31:55 GMT

Jorge,

maybe you should consider user DCPS (it's free with OpenVMS, but must be installed seperately). It gives you much more control over the printer's features.

regards Kalle

Re: Printing blank page after the trailer between print jobs.

Jeroen Hartgers_3 — Wed, 08 Feb 2006 10:37:34 GMT

the trailer is defined in your default

/DEFAULT=(FLAG=ONE,FORM=DEFAULT,TRAILER)
if you change it in

/DEFAULT=(FORM=DEFAULT)
the trailer is gone

flage=one is probely your header page

Re: Printing blank page after the trailer between print jobs.

Jorge Cocomess — Wed, 08 Feb 2006 14:38:47 GMT

The header and trailer page I do want. I do not want a blank page between the header and the trailer. As I stated previously, the fixed has been in place and I'm now getting no more blank pages.

Good day!!