Hi Brian,
brian m. carlson wrote:
When I print a file with ghostscript 9, I always get a blank page
printed first. Then my document prints normally.
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The printer I am using is an Officejet 4500. I also see this problem
with a Deskjet 5740. Both of these printers use the hplip/hpijs
functionality, although one uses the full hplip (with the hp backend)
and the other uses just the ppds (with the usb backend); these printers
are on two different machines. While this is not terrible, it is
inconvenient and quite irksome when I'm printing twenty copies of
something.
Cc-ing the hplip maintainers for ideas.
What would be most useful for debugging: do you know any way to
detect the blank page in the output (using gs -sOutputFile) without
using an actual printer? With that information, it should be
possible to bisect using the upstream ghostscript repo[1].
Thanks for reporting,
Jonathan
[1] git://git.ghostscript.com/ghostscript.git