CUPS - No form feed with Epson and FC5

[Gerald B. Cox]

Here is the URL for the Fedora bug report:

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=189187

Anthony, could you please add a comment.  Thanks!

Quoting "Gerald B. Cox" <gbcox at bzb.us>:

> Hummmmm...very interesting.  Thanks for the info.  I searched fedora
> bugzilla and didn't see anything listed.  If it happened to you with a
> clean install
> and me with an upgrade, looks like a definite code defect somewhere.
>
> I'll open a fedora bug also.  Might be something related to the distribution.
>
> It's fairly easy to reproduce.  Must not be alot of EPSON R300's running FC5.
>
> Quoting Anthony Joseph Messina <amessina at messinet.com>:
>
>> On Mon, 2006-04-17 at 11:43 -0700, 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!
>>>
>>>
>>
>> well, gerald, we meet again...
>>
>> i filed a bug report here:
>> "[ 1466678 ] Epson Stylus Photo R300 fails to eject last page"
>> https://sourceforge.net/tracker/?func=detail&atid=101537&aid=1466678&group_id=1537
>>
>> someone started to help me, but then trailed off.  perhaps you could
>> reignite the fire.
>>
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