one page or less will not print

[michael drillinger]

I am on a Suse linux system.

Jobs of more than one page print completely but jobs that are one page or less do not print. For each job of one page or less a file appears in /var/spool/cups and also in /var/spool/cups/tmp.

I am trying to print from application software that uses a control file to address output devices like the printer. The control line to the printer currently is: lpr -oraw -Pprintername.

It seems like some kind of buffer problem where once the page buffer is full (more than one page to print) all of the pages print. But if there is not even one page of text then nothing prints.