This is normal behaviour for a laser printer being asked to print a os job.
Laser are page printers, unlike inkjets or ot matrix that are line printers.
Lasers required that an eject/formfeed/whatever code be sent however dos
programs do not provide this, so you have to do it for it. Note that this is
NOT a limitation/fault of dos or dos programs, just a hardware device
requiring something the the software was never written to give. Also under
both win95 and 98 you should tell the printer NOT to spool dos jobs,
otherwise it will usually screw up.


> I have a client using a Win98 workstation and an
> HP 6L printer. When printing from a DOS based
> program the printer works fine but you need to
> push the paper feed button on the printer in
> order to get the printout. Initially the printer
> was giving spool32 errors and after disabling
> print spooling it works fine but you need to push
> the paper advance button each time. Any ideas? Thanks.

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