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Okidata Sheet Feeders Automatically Form Feed
DocumentID: 644952
Revision Date: 29-Feb-96 8:19:02 PM

The information in this document applies to:
WordPerfect® 5.1 for DOS

Problem

Symptoms: The customer has the Okidata ML 390 with a single bin sheet feeder. When he prints "This is a test," the printer pulls one sheet from the bin, prints "this is a test," kicks that sheet out, pulls in another page and kicks that page out. Forms are set to continuous and sheet feeder is set to none. If he uses the standard printer definition it works fine. Solutions: The Okidata sheet feeders work, automatically feed in a sheet of paper when the print job is done. If a form feed is sent to the printer, which is what is happening when continuous is selected, then that sheet of paper is fed out. This would be OK, except that when the next form feed is sent, it causes that page that was automatically fed to be kicked out, and another one fed in, and that is what is giving us a blank page. The sheet feeder driver was written in such a way that no form feed is ever sent, rather an insert page and eject page code is sent, thus eliminating the extra form feed. The problem with this is that if the sheet feeder is on the printer, and the sheet feeder is not selected, or the sheet feeder is selected, but no bin number is selected, then WordPerfect will still send a form feed. What it boils down to is that if a customer has an Okidata sheet feeder, and is having an extra page feed between each printed page, make sure that they:
1.      Have a sheet feeder selected and
2.      Have a bin number selected for the form that they are using.

We have not had a single problem persist if these two conditions were met.

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