CUPS - No form feed with Epson and FC5

[Anthony Messina]

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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