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Just rolled out to redhat 8 here at work.. We are running Gnome, and using Mozilla as our browser. Printing to a HP Laserjet 5 via HP Jetdirect. When printing from Mozilla we get a ton of blank pages. But only in mozilla. I've setup another printer to print via CUPS, and it does the same thing. All of the drivers that come with linux seem to cause the same thing. Any ideas?
thanks for the quick reply.. well, i did a print to file and viewed it, low and behold only one page.. on paper, 7 blank pages, and one print out.. on another printer I get 5 blank pages and then the printout..
Not a big deal normally, but everything we do is thru a web portal, and thru the course of a day print close to a ream of blank paper.. total pain..
went as far as to try opera, too bad it crashes when i try to print..
-scoob8000
[EDIT]
I decided to try to print the save file I made, low and behold it printed the blank pages too...
from home I tried setting up a printer.. did the same damn thing with redhat 9 and konquerer, yet prints fine from other programs.. tried all 4 possible drivers, all had a similar effect.. only changed the number of how many blanks it prints..
does it from any webpage, varies from 1 to 7 or so blank sheets per printout.. even printing this forum thread yields a few blanks..
alas, i found a driver that fixed that problem on one of the printers.. for the hp laserjet 5, i found a straight hp laserjet series cups driver.. no such luck with the minolta or my personal printer..
Distribution: Red Hat Linux 9, FreeBSD 4.8, Knoppix 3.2
Posts: 182
Rep:
What kind of Minolta printer (model) have you got?
What kind of printer (model) is your personal printer?
Which CUPS driver do you use on these printers?
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