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Subject: Re: Printing on a Canon BJ10
To: dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu
Date: Tue, 16 Jul 1996 12:46:45 +0200 (MESZ)
Cc: jbrann@panix.com, questions@FreeBSD.org
In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSI.3.94.960715213110.2447G-100000@gdi.uoregon.edu> from "Doug White" at Jul 15, 96 09:32:10 pm
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In his e-mail Doug White wrote:
> On Mon, 15 Jul 1996, John Brann wrote:
> 
> > I have a Canon BJ10 set up to print from FreeBSD, both through lpd, locally
> > and through Samba.
> > 
> > When printing from FreeBSD, in simple text mode, I always lose the last 2
> > lines of every page.  My printcap entry is:
> 
> Does the Canon require a formfeed to flush out the print buffer?  My HP
> 500C does, I hit "Load/Eject" and out comes the remaining text and the
> page.  
> 
> If so, then you need to put in a simple output filter to stick on a
> formfeed at the end of input.  Such a script is in the Handbook.

IIRC, there is a printcap that does the same.  fp (flush page) or so.

/Marino
> 
> Doug White                              | University of Oregon  
> Internet:  dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu    | Residence Networking Assistant
> http://gladstone.uoregon.edu/~dwhite    | Computer Science Major
> 
>