[ILUG] samba & HP PhotoSmart

[Liam Bedford]

>-----Original Message-----
>From: Barry Redmond [mailto:bredmond at electronics.dit.ie]
>
>Hi,
>
>I have a problem setting up a HP PhotoSmart P1100 printer to be used 
>by Windows machines via samba on Slackware.  Everything seems 
>to work ok except that one blank page is added to the end of the 
>printout, and I can't figure out why.  As I write this I'm just 
>realising that I've only tested it with single page documents, so 
>it's possible that a blank page is being added after every page.
>
>As far as I can make out the P1100 is intended to be used only with 
>Windows, but all I want to do is take the bunch of bytes issued by 
>the driver on the client PC and shuffle them through samba and lpr 
>out to the printer so it should work - shouldn't it?
>
>The testing I've done seems to point to lpr as the culprit.  Does it 
>do any processing of the byte stream by default?  My printcap is 
>the standard stuff from the installed sample.  If lpr does 
>modify the byte stream then how do I stop it doing it?  I can't find 
>any relevant information in the man pages.

I have exactly the same problem with my Brother 1050. The solution is to add
the option sf to /etc/printcap for the printer, so you'll have something
like:

lp:\
        :sd=/var/spool/lpd/lp:\
        :mx#0:\
        :sh:\
        :rm=dylan:\
        :rp=lp:\
        :if=/var/spool/lpd/lp/filter:

and you need to add sf, so you'll have:
lp:\
        :sd=/var/spool/lpd/lp:\
        :mx#0:\
        :sh:sf:\
	  ^^^^^^^^^^
        :rm=dylan:\
        :rp=lp:\
        :if=/var/spool/lpd/lp/filter:

That suppresses the final form feed.

Regards
L.