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From: Stranger Bone <ben@narcissus.ml.org>
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Subject: elimating the staircase problem on an HP DeskJet 400
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Hi there,

So I hooked up my new HP DeskJet 400 according to the handbook, but it 
has the staircase problem that the handbook describes, meaning that text

prints a line and then when it's time
				     for the next line it doesn't do a CR,
									  see?

The handbook describes how to fix this for certain higher-end HP 
printers, but not for the kind I have.  I tried installing this as my if:

#!/bin/sh
#
# if-simple - Simple text input filter for lpd
# Installed in /usr/local/libexec/if-simple
#
# Simply copies stdin to stdout.  Ignores all filter arguments.

/usr/bin/tr "[\010]" "[\010\013]" && exit 0
exit 2

And several variations on it, but all I got was either nothing at all 
(the printer would feed the paper through but not print anything) or it 
would print a single line and no more.

I'm not entirely sure I've got the tr syntax right, either.  So if anyone 
can help me, I'd greatly appreciate it.



 Ben

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