AIX printer and extra blank page after each print

UNIX AIX
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Guy's

I have installed AIX direct Network printer as the below details....

printer1 hp@printer1 hplj-3 (HP-GL/2)

Printer is printing fain and clearly

but it's printing extra blank page after each print ?

What's the couse of this problem ?

Pls advice !

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We had this problem once - turns out that we had the lines per page set wrong. IBM defaults to 60 and our app was doing 66 lines.

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Explain more please in which sittings I have to change the defaults , advice please ...

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Does your print file contain escape sequences?
Are you printing plain text, PCL5 or Postscript?

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No I'm printing as ASCII , Pls look to my sittings ... Printer IP address > (xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx )

Names of NEW print queues to add
ASCII --------------------------- [xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx]
GL Emulation ---------------------[]
PCL Emulation --------------------[]
PostScript -----------------------[]

Printer connection characteristics

  • HOSTNAME of the JetDirect Card [xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx]
  • PORT [9100]
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To check the lines/page:

# smitty chpq 
   Choose your print queu
      Choose Default Print Job Attributes
        Scroll down to 'Lines per page'
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  • if memory serves, besides the "page height" (or lines-per-page) parameter,
    I remember that "smit" and/or "jetdirect" used to have a specific "trailing page" yes/no config option/field, which governed the printing of an additional blank page at the end of the print jobs;

good luck, and success !

alexandre botao
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