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- Subject: LAT printer: extra blank pages between jobs
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- From: CHD@HERMES.ECE.ARIZONA.EDU (Chris De Young)
- Date: 13 Jan 1993 00:16:27 GMT
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- I am having problems with laser printers spitting out blank pages between
- jobs, and I don't know why.
-
- I have an HP Laserjet III on a LAT port, under VMS 5.4-2. (see below)
- It does not print an extra blank page when you use a simple
- "print/que=xxx", but it *does* when you use
- "print/que=xxx/setup=portrait". Now, says me, okay, it's
- something in the PORTRAIT setup module right?
-
- That setup module contains: "<ESC>E<ESC>&l2a0O" (quotes mine).
- According to my PCL reference guide, the <ESC>E is a reset sequence for
- the printer, <ESC>&l2a specifies letter size paper, and 0O (<ESC>&
- implied) specifies portrait orientation.
-
- I thought it might be the reset, but we have a module RESET containing only an
- <ESC>E and "print/queue=2930/setup=reset" does not print the extra page.
-
- Where is the extra page coming from?????????? How can I get rid of
- it????????? Help! ;-)
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- $ sh que/all/full 2930 ! 2930 is the queue in question, HOPI:: is a
- ! VAX 4000/300, VMS 5.4-2
-
- Terminal queue 2930, on HOPI::LTA9978:, mounted form DEFAULT
- /BASE_PRIORITY=4 /CHAR=(1,10) /DEFAULT=(FEED,FORM=DEFAULT) /NOENABLE_GENERIC
- /LIBRARY=SYSDEVCTL_HPIII Lowercase /OWNER=[SYSTEM] /PROTECTION=(S:E,O:D,G:R,
- W:W) /SCHEDULE=(NOSIZE)
-
- $ show dev/full lta9978
-
- Terminal LTA9978:, device type unknown, is online, allocated, record-oriented
- device, carriage control, device is spooled through an intermediate device.
-
- Error count 0 Operations completed 153
- Owner process "SYMBIONT_0006" Owner UIC [SYSTEM]
- Owner process ID 2720011D Dev Prot S:RWLP,O:,G:,W:
- Reference count 2 Default buffer size 132
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