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Windows 2000 Generic Printer Driver

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by tkessler

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The Windows 2000 Generic Printer driver insists on always appending a form feed or multiple line feeds to every print request. I've changed every possible parameter to eliminate this with no luck. By printing to a file, I can see this extra form feed which wastes a sheet of paper. Windows 9x did not have this problem. I have an application that does all of its own formatting, so I want the driver to do nothing to the printer stream.

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by c-wundram

I've had similar problems trying to send postscript code to a postscript printer without the driver attempting to format it. I've had the best luck by dumping the output to a file, and then using lpr to send the file to the printer. This assumes that you have a network printer. If you have a parallel port printer, then just stream the output directly to lpt1: or lpt2: which will also bypass any printer drivers.

by tkessler

This process needs to be automatic as users are running Telnet 5250 connected to an AS/400. The AS/400 outputs the format and sends it to a Telnet printer program that uses the generic printer driver. Unfortunately the Windows 2000 driver insists on appending a form feed or line feeds.

by tjc

Try making the windows generic print driver page margins smaller that way the extra characters may not cause that blank page.

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