jvance@magnus.acs.ohio-state.edu (Jerry Vance) (06/13/91)
We have netware 2.15 installed and use a HPlaserjet II printer. We deleted the banner page but everytime we send a document to print we get an extra page from the printer. Needless to say a lot of paper gets wasted. Our rep who helped install says that the HP needs to kick out a page to clean its buffer. Help there must be a way to save this page. -- Jerry Vance, Program Services, Department of Aviation, 292-5652
res8595@ritvax.isc.rit.edu (SCIPIONI, RE) (06/13/91)
In article <1991Jun12.174127.7458@magnus.acs.ohio-state.edu>, jvance@magnus.acs.ohio-state.edu (Jerry Vance) writes... >We have netware 2.15 installed and use a HPlaserjet II printer. We deleted the > banner page but everytime we send a document to print we get an extra page >from the printer. Needless to say a lot of paper gets wasted. Our rep who >helped install says that the HP needs to kick out a page to clean its buffer. >Help there must be a way to save this page. >-- >Jerry Vance, Program Services, Department of Aviation, 292-5652 Jerry, I experienced a similar problem with a standard Epson printer. It turned out the the consultant that defined the printers had a form feed as part of the <reset> mode in the printdef file. Once I removed that particular ESC sequence the "problem" was gone. Hope this helps. Bob Scipioni
gase@hpdmd48.boi.hp.com (Stephen T. Gase) (06/13/91)
Use the PRINTDEF utility to define printer initialization and cleanup strings. In particular, define the cleanup string to contain the characters "<ESC>E", which tell the printer to eject the page if there is anything to be printed on the paper. These definitions should already exist in Novell's .PDF files (printer definition files) but need to be imported through PRINTDEF. Then use the PRINTCON program to set up job configurations for each user, indicating the printer definition file and the initialization sequence. While you are in PRINTCON, change the Suppress Form Feed selection to YES to get rid of the extra formfeed. After doing this (refer to the novell manuals for help), the page is kicked out only when necessary and the formfeed is no longer needed. Steve
cmp8118@sys.uea.ac.uk (Dave Cartwright) (06/14/91)
jvance@magnus.acs.ohio-state.edu (Jerry Vance) writes: >We have netware 2.15 installed and use a HPlaserjet II printer. We deleted the >banner page but everytime we send a document to print we get an extra page >from the printer. Needless to say a lot of paper gets wasted. Our rep who >helped install says that the HP needs to kick out a page to clean its buffer. Please kick your rep somewhere painful for me - he doesn't deserve to be called a rep if he doesn't know the product. I run Laserjet II's on 2.15, without banner pages. All you have to do is set the capture (one assumes you're using capture) mode to : CAPTURE SERVER=<sname> QUEUE=<qname> NB NFF TI=n The NB tells it not to print a banner. The NFF means 'Don't kick out a blank page at the end cod the printer already does so automatically. There may be a switch in the HP to set "Auto FF at end of document"; I don't know cos I've always used the factory settings. YES, the HP does need to kick out a sheet to empty its buffer, but really all this is doing is printing the last page. When it finds an End Of Document, it kicks out a page. I reckon it was probably NetWare that was playing you up. The NFF should do it. As an aside, I also use Canon LBPII's. I use NetWare FF (not NFF) to force a FF at the end of the document, and have disabled this facility in the printer cos it started getting a bit unreliable. But LJII's should be OK, I know mine is. Dave C P.S. Sorry to post this rather than mailing, but I thought others may be interested. -- Dave Cartwright, | cmp8118@sys.uea.ac.uk or uk.ac.uea.sys School of Information Systems, | uucp : ...!ukc!uea-sys!cmp8118 University of East Anglia, | "Reality is an illusion brought on by Norwich, ENGLAND. NR4 7TJ. | lack of alcohol ..."
dd@intuit.intuit.COM (David DelGreco) (06/16/91)
res8595@ritvax.isc.rit.edu (SCIPIONI, RE) writes: >In article <1991Jun12.174127.7458@magnus.acs.ohio-state.edu>, jvance@magnus.acs.ohio-state.edu (Jerry Vance) writes... >>We have netware 2.15 installed and use a HPlaserjet II printer. We deleted the >> banner page but everytime we send a document to print we get an extra page >>from the printer. Needless to say a lot of paper gets wasted. Our rep who >>helped install says that the HP needs to kick out a page to clean its buffer. >>Help there must be a way to save this page. >I experienced a similar problem with a standard Epson printer. It turned out >the the consultant that defined the printers had a form feed as part of the ><reset> mode in the printdef file. Once I removed that particular ESC sequence >the "problem" was gone. Hope this helps. We have the same problem. We also work with software that requires printer drivers. When the HP receives a reset code "<Esc>E" it will spit out a page IF some info already happens to be in it's buffer. But if there is no info in the buffer, then it won't print out a page. But on our network, we get a page spit out AFTER every job. Is that what is happening to you, Jerry? I'd love to find out why this is happening. Seems to be coming from the server, as far as I can tell. David DelGreco dd@intuit.com