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bilimoria@inland.com writes:

>Often, when I try to print from my PC (386 w/dos 5.0) to my Panasonic
>laser printer, I don't get the output right away.  I have to try it
>several times and then I get the output, but there are several copies
>of the output on the page.  It seems DOS doesn't want to print until
>there is enough output to fill a page.  Is there a buffer somwhere that
>is holding the output until it is full?  Any help will be appreciated.
>P.S. Panasonic laser printer has 512K of RAM.  Thanks.

Are you just printing plain text to
the printer.  When printing plain test
to a laser printer on HPII mode, the page
has to be filled before it is fed out of the printer.

The easiest way around this is when you have sent
the data to the printer (should be almost instantaneous)
give it a manual form feed to output the page.

There might be better ways but this could be the
simplest.
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