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In <1992Sep25.170337.2363@inland.com> 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.

  Yes, the printer in question waits until a page is full to print it.
There's an easy workaround, however:  after your print job, just type
the following at the DOS prompt:

     ECHO ^L > PRN

Where "^L" represents "Control-L".  Control-L is the formfeed character 
(ASCII 12), and instructs the printer to go ahead and print what's in its
memory.

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