printing some blank pages

[doug mielke]

I have an unusual printing problem:

We have over 500 mostly HP printers, some direct IP, some using Windows print servers, some still using Novell print servers.

Almost everything works just fine. However, a few Oracle based reports, FSGs for example, will only print correctly through Novell servers.
Direct IP or through Windows the result is one line of print, followed by the correct number of blank pages.
Everything else, text, forms (through Optio) and other standard Oracle prints, work correctly.

Has anyone seen this before? Am I somehow getting my cr/lf commands sent incorrectly and sending print off the end of the page? What can Novell be giving me that direct printing cant? Where can I start to look?

[Steve Steel]

Hi


Sounds like linefeed and no carriage return or stairstepping

Q: Jobs printing on my printer are stair-stepping.
A: The printer wants carriage return (CR) mapped to line feed (LF). There is a poor way, a good way, and a best way to correct this. We relate the best first, the worse last:


a. Physically set the printer to map CR to LF. This is especially important with graphics-capable printers (e.g., lasers), since the printer is intelligent enough not to do the mapping on graphical data.


b. Create a pcap entry to send the proper control sequence to the printer for any jobs that require the mapping.


c. Except for very old, simple printers, we do not recommend you do this, because there are circumstances where it could cause a sophisticated printer to produce quite undesirable results. Do not employ it for graphical printers. For others, however, you can edit the translation table, ttlpn (n denotes printer number):


find the line with 0A in column one


modify the 0A in column two to 0D0A







see
http://forums1.itrc.hp.com/service/forums/bizsupport/parseCurl.do?CURL=%2Fcm%2FQuestionAnswer%2F1%2C%2C0x8c30c4c76f92d611abdb0090277a778c%2C00.html&forumId=2&admit=716493758+1079451961446+28353475

http://forums1.itrc.hp.com/service/forums/questionanswer.do?threadId=207162

http://www.marcelgagne.com/LSAbook/lsach13.pdf



Steve Steel