Re: CUPS - No form feed with Epson and FC5

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Gerald B. Cox wrote:
> 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@xxxxxxxxxxxx>:
> 
>> 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?

the gimp-print webpage states that the latest release candidate of
gutenprint (which replaces gimp-print) incorporates a fix.  but i don't
see any gutenprint packages in the fedora 5 devel or testing repos.  i'm
assuming that they might not appear there until gutenprint is out of the
"release candidate" stage.


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