On Mon, Jan 31, 2011 at 09:37:24AM +0000, Dennis den Brok wrote:
> Jan Stary <h...@stare.cz> schrieb:
> > "fo" just forces a form feed;
> > it doesn't "turn PS support on/off" or whatever.
>
> Certainly not, but it seems the printer is picky about recognizing
> PostScript as such. I don't know what data actually hits the wire,
> maybe there is some bogus data sent before the actual PostScript,
> but the form feed apparently cures that. Funnily, I only need this
> under NetBSD. Under OpenBSD, it does not have any effect, printing
> always works, or rather works even worse but with pleasant effect:
> first, an essentially blank page with a few characters sprinkled
> across is printed, but then the PostScript sent is printed correctly.
>
> As this is still a problem for me and I don't know how to fix it,
> maybe I may hijack this thread and ask for a possible solution?
>
> Thanks,
> Dennis den Brok
printcap sh is your friend.
-Otto
