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This article is from the 3b1 computers FAQ, by John B. Bunch with numerous contributions by others.

4.14. Why are all the jobs on the printer always followed by a formfeed?

The line printer driver follows each close(2) of /dev/lp with a formfeed. There is no way to disable this, except by avoiding the driver altogether and going straight to the raw printer device.

	# su lp
	$ /usr/lib/lpadmin -plp1 -mdumb -v/dev/rawlp

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