suppress page ejection to print on enless continuous paper roll?

[Helge Blischke]

Daniel Bauer wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> i'd like to print on a paper roll instead of cut paper sheets.
> From what i could find in the forum archives, postscript doesn't
> support endless paper but only pages. That's not a problem for me,
> i'd still like to print it out pagewise, just that instead of feeding
> out a sheet of paper it would continue to print every page right
> behind the last one on the roll, without space between the pages (or maybe up to 1 inch space).
> Essentially, i believe that just comes down to suppressing the page ejection.
> 
> is there a way to do that with cups?
> if so, how?
> does that depend on the printer?
> if so, what laser or inkjet printers are known to be capable of doing this?

If your printer really is a roll feed machine, you probably need not
take any special precautions. On such machines, the PostScript
showpage operator just manages to put the internally built bitmap
image onto the media and advance the media as far as needed (there may
be special statements to control the size of the gap between
subsequent pages, though).

Helge

PS: Perhaps you could post the PPD for your printer?

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Helge Blischke
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