Extra Form Feed with Passthrough Functions to Text Only Driver

• Microsoft Windows NT Workstation versions 3.51, 4.0
• Microsoft Windows NT Server versions 3.51, 4.0

SUMMARY

When you send printer escape information in a print stream to a Windows NT Generic Text Only driver, additional form feed may occur after the job has been completed.

MORE INFORMATION

The raster unidriver, RASDD, automatically appends a form feed to all jobs to ensure that the data gets sent to the printer. If an application developer uses the Escape or ExtEscape function, and includes all of the necessary sequences to print the page, an additional FormFeed or EjectPage will force another page to be printed. For additional information on the functions mentioned, please consult the Win32 SDK documentation.

NOTE: This fix only pertains to the Generic/Text Only driver

STATUS

Microsoft has confirmed this to be a problem in Windows NT versions 3.51 and 4.0. This problem was corrected in the latest Microsoft Windows NT 4.0 U.S. Service Pack. For information on obtaining the service pack, query on the following word in the Microsoft Knowledge Base (without the spaces):

S E R V P A C K

Additional query words: prodnt formfeed form feed

Keywords : kbprint kbbug4.00 kbfix4.00 ntprint kbbug3.51 kbfix3.51 kbfix4.00.sp3 NTSrvWkst
Version : 3.51 4.0
Platform : winnt
Issue type : kbbug