Depends on how you are formatting it.
If you are formatting it by sending a prefix string of characters
from one file, then sending your job, that would cause any ESC E
to shoot out a new page.
Also, by any chance does your job have any print @(-1) that are sent
to the printer. If your
Steve:
This is almost always limited to HP printers.
What normally happens is that a print job always begins with a form feed.
When PCL preceeds this print job you get a string that looks like:
Pcl commands : FF : Print job
Then, when this string is sent to the printer, HP interprets Pcl
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Sent: Tuesday, March 07, 2006 7:00 AM
Subject: RE: [U2] PCL extra page
Steve:
This is almost always limited to HP printers.
What normally happens is that a print job always begins with a form feed.
When PCL preceeds this print job you get a string that looks like:
Pcl commands : FF
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From: Dave Taylor [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Tuesday, March 07, 2006 9:21 AM
To: Bill Haskett; u2-users@listserver.u2ug.org
Subject: Re: [U2] PCL extra page
Bill,
I may be reading too much between the lines
Goo'day, Dave and Bill,
A further option you might like to consider (in a Windows printer
environment) is the use of the printer's Page Separator (for each of the
separate and several printers you create) to set a document's properties to
whatever you requirelandscape/portrait, font,
In our case...
The users rightfully complained about those blank pages at the beginning
of print jobs, so years ago we put a wrapper around all of our printing.
Essentially, everything goes to a hold file first.
The leading form feed is stripped from the beginning of the job if
present.
The
Dear Steve,
I have seen a number of really good ideas posted to the list to help you
with this issue. Here is another option I haven't seen mentioned yet.
HP PCL includes a command called eject page, which will cause a form feed to
occur if printable data is currently stored in the printer's