How do I configure printer to line feed instead of form feed??

[Paul Christie]

Basically I am having major troubles trying to configure a HP 1200d to line feed.
There is a specific application that prints automatic alerts to this printer. The problem is, due to the printer feeding out the paper in 'form feed' these alerts are printing 1-2 lines per page. This is because the application was originally designed to print to the old dot matrix printers, where it would print off continuously line after line, instead of line per a4 page.
I am looking for advice on how I could configure the HP 1200d to print off in this way. I require it to line feed so that the printer continuously prints untill the a4 page is full, feed the paper out, then continue if necessary. Any help would be appreciated. Kind Regards

[A. Clay Stephenson]

Is this printer connected to an HP-UX box? In any event, the printer is doing exactly the correct thing. When an ASCII FF is sent, the printer should advance to the top of form of the next page. I'm going to guess that the original printer had set the formlength to a very small value (1 or 2 lines) so that a FF, in effect, became a LF.

You might be able to do the same thing on the new printer but I rather doubt it. You could write a trivial filter (possibly within the interface file itself -- again if this is UNIX) that would transform FF's into LF's before the data are sent to the printer.