OT: Formfeed on Red Hat Linux 9.0

[Jay R. Ashworth]

On Thu, Apr 22, 2004 at 11:06:58AM -0400, Scott Walker wrote:
> Customer used to use SCO and after a one page form printed, the paper
> would automatically form feed past the next blank page.  This allowed
> the customer to easily tear off the form that just printed without
> having to take the printer off line, press form feed, and then put the
> printer back on line.  This extra form feed came from the printer
> interface script.

*Ghod*, that's wasteful.

Get a different printer.  The Lexmark 23XX series I like to tout will
let you use every form.

> Now we have moved to Red Hat Linux 9.0.  The one page form prints fine,
> but there is no extra form feed to advanced the form to the tear off
> position.  Is there something similar to the printer interface script in
> Red Hat 9.0 where I can tell it to do an extra form feed after the print
> job?

But, in lieu,  go into printconf-tui or -gui, select the printer, and
look at the driver settings.

Cheers,
-- jra
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