Thanks to all who responded:
Chad Price <cprice@molbio.unmc.edu>
"Cole, Jeff" <Jeff.Cole@tfn.com>
Tim Carlson <tim@santafe.edu>
"William Mansfield" <wmansfie@cceb.upenn.edu>
"Terry Franklin" <tfranklin@home.com>
"Julie Schenck" <jschenck@unipress.com>
Shawn Kondel <shawnk@sunfs.math.usu.edu>
todd a fiedler <todd.a.fiedler@mail.sprint.com>
"David Evans" <DJEVANS@au.oracle.com>
Chin Fang <fangchin@leland.Stanford.EDU>
Danny Johnson <djohnson@nbserv1.rsc.raytheon.com>
"Matthew Stier" <Matthew.Stier@tddny.fujitsu.com>
Steve Moore (431)-1239 <stm81437@melsud.res.ray.com>
Laszlo Ernesto de Miranda Pinto <laszlo@dcc.ufmg.br>
mark.timothy@techn.alstom.com
One person admonished me for not checking the archives. I did, but
either I missed the entry or going back over a year wasn't enough.
The simplest solution was to change a setting on the printer
itself. On my printer, a HP LaserJet 4000N, if you use the console to
change the printer settings: press the "Menu" button until the
"Printing Menu" appears, then press the "Item" button till the item
"Append CR to LF" appears and then press the "Value" button to set the
variable to "YES", then hit the "Select" button. This took care of the
stair-stepping problem.
The most popular solution suggested, however, was to install
JetAdmin. For just one printer, it wasn't really necessary for me to
install JetAdmin. But, JetAdmin makes it *incredibly* easy to create a
print queue and manage access an IP attached printer on the network.
A couple of people suggested it might be that I had /usr/ucb/echo in
my path before /usr/bin/echo and that this would cause the
problem. This was not the case for me.
Two people suggested I install GNU's enscript (http://www.gnu.org .)
Julie Schenck, indicated that version 1.4 worked for her, and 1.6.1 did
*not*.
Shawn Kondel suggested I send files through a postscript filter.
Todd Fiedler suggested I use a dual printer strategy:
ASCII Text
--------------------------------------------
# lpadmin -p textprinter -s hostname!text
# accept
PostScript
--------------------------------------------
# lpadmin -p psprinter -s hostname!raw
# accept
I had tried something like this before and while it works, it's a
problem educating my user community.
Mark Timothy gave me the URL for a very informative article:
http://www.sunworld.com/swol-04-1999/swol-04-printserver.html?0426a
All in all, making a single change on the printer itself is the
easiest solution. JetAdmin offers tremendous flexibility. It would be
nice if JetAdmin would allow you to change the settings without having
to touch the printer. If it is possible to do this, I couldn't figure
it out from the JetAdmin menus.
Thanks again for all the responses!
-- Bob Benites
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