Hello, On Mar 14 11:13 Rainer Lay wrote (shortened):
But - the CUPS SAM also doesn't tell me, what most of the format means, e.g. format=c ;-)
Because this are "known by everybody" ;-) LPD protocol options as described in RFC 1179 "Line Printer Daemon Protocol": http://www.ietf.org/rfc/rfc1179.txt see the sections 7.17 up to 7.28
Is there a possibility to be sure, that the formfeed is not coming from cups
Connect the printer for a test via parallel port or via USB and test it with the same PPD (i.e. with the same driver). If there is also an additional formfeed, try another driver e.g. the generic PCL5e driver "ljet4" (choose the "unknown" manufacturer in YaST to get the generic models/drivers). This tests only the driver and therefore one could still think that the additional formfeed comes from the CUPS lpd backend but in this case I should know about tons of similar reports. Additionally set up "raw" queues (unselect "filtering" in YaST) with the CUPS lpd backend and via parallel port or via USB and send something with missing formfeed via the queue: echo -en "\rHello" | lp -d QUEUE which should not eject the page until you send the formfeed echo -en "\f" | lp -d QUEUE Compare the results via lpd backend and via parallel port or via USB. By the way: For big and fat printers it is often possible to set something inside the printer which may cause such an additional formfeed but I don't think such settings exist for a HP LaserJet 1150. Kind Regards Johannes Meixner -- SUSE LINUX Products GmbH, Maxfeldstrasse 5 Mail: jsmeix@suse.de 90409 Nuernberg, Germany WWW: http://www.suse.de/