[cups.general] Blank page printed after each job

[Markus Meyer]

Johannes,

Johannes Meixner schrieb:
> I guess you have to configure your printserver box correctly
> so that it does no longer emit an additional formfeed character,
>   
the printserver box (an Arcor EasyBox DSL/WLAN/USB) does not "emit an 
additional formfeed character" when printing to the same printer from 
Windows XP nor does the documentation mention such a feature. Also, the 
box does not support the AppSocket protocol, so using it is out of 
question. I now renamed the queue name from "lpt1" to "hp" according to 
your suggestion, but the behaviour did not change.

> I can't believe that it is a problem to find possible answers
> via Google - at least I found several possible reasons
> and many answers.
>   
I did find many people having the same problem on Google but no 
definitive answers as to what would be the root cause of the problem. 
You may have noticed that the three threads on the Cups mailing list I 
provided links for all went unanswered. The same goes for the Ubuntu 
forums, where other people expressed this same problem and did not get 
an answer either. There is even a FAQ about this problem (see 
http://www.linux-foundation.org/en/OpenPrinting/Database/CupsFAQ#Why_does_a_blank_page_print_for_every_print_job.3F), 
but it says "The exact cause is unknown. There is one possible 
workaround...". I tried this workaround but it does not change the 
behaviour for me. It also is not inspiring confidence in CUPS if there 
seems to be a long-standing issue where the "exact cause is unknown". 
I'm not pointing fingers at anyone, as I wrote I would even offer to 
debug this myself if I was given a pointer on where to start. Instead 
you are telling me to use Google which I already did.


Markus