CUPS - No form feed with Epson and FC5

[Gerald B. Cox]

Good question.  The Fedora bug report references the gimp-print bug,  
so hopefully whoever looks at it will take the appropriate action and  
get
it incorporated.

Quoting Anthony Messina <amessina at messinet.com>:

> Gordon Keehn wrote:
>> Gerald B. Cox wrote:
>>> I been working through FC5 upgrade issues and just noticed another.
>>>
>>> I have an Epson Photo R300 Printer.  I noticed that when
>>> I print the CUPS test page, or print from an application such as GNUMERIC
>>> or ABIWORD, the page doesn't eject from the printer when done.  The
>>> only way the page is ejected is I either turn the printer off then
>>> back on, or if I start another print job.  If I start another print
>>> job, the spacing for that next job is messed up.
>>>
>>> I did notice in properties for the print queue there is a setting for
>>> "Send a FF" which wasn't checked.  I tried selecting that, but it
>>> doesn't make any difference.
>>>
>>> If I print from within GIMP however, things appear to work normally.
>>>
>>> I didn't have a problem with FC4 - everything worked fine.
>>>
>>> Has anyone else noticed this?  Should I enter a bug report?
>>>
>>> Thanks!
>>>
>>    I saw this once with my Epson CX-5400, but I just recently installed
>> FC5, and haven't had a chance to reproduce or verify the problem.
>>    Cheers,
>> Gordon Keehn
>
> user "rlk" posted this at sourceforge:
>
> Date: 2006-04-18 20:07
>
> The latest CVS repository contains a fix.  Posting a patch
> wouldn't be too helpful since there are extensive changes
> in
> this code since 5.0.0-rc2.
>
> how do we find out when this change will be put into fc5 updates repo?
>
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