Mystery Print Separator Page

Posted by Jesse Bradlee on Server Fault See other posts from Server Fault or by Jesse Bradlee
Published on 2013-10-23T13:38:16Z Indexed on 2013/10/25 3:58 UTC
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Good morning! After a recent site upgrade to WebSphere 7.0 from 6.1 on an AIX server, our users reported a print separator page appearing on a certain type of report, and only on one printer. Trouble is, no one (devs, sysadmins, users) knows where it came from or where to turn it off.

Based on the info, the first step was to check the app, but we don't have print separators in our code. The report they're using also lacks even an option to separate. Then I asked the WebSphere gurus but they shook their heads. Ditto the network/print server team.

If anyone can identify the source of this separator, I can take that back to the relevant team and have it switched off. They look like this (some whitespace removed for brevity):

*##################################################
*##################################################
*##################################################

***************************************************
TITLE:          [document name]
TIME PRINTED:   Fri Sep 20 08:21:45 2013
TIME QUEUED:    Fri Sep 20 08:21:45 2013
PRINTED AT:     hp@hp41 (generic) @ [app name]
SUBMITTED BY:   root
DELIVER TO:     =====> root <=====

***************************************************
FLAG VALUES:
a-0, b=0, d=a, f=, g=1, h=, i=0, j=+, l=00, p=10, t=0, v=6, w=3--, x=2, A=1,
B=gn, C=!, H=, J=+, L=+, N=1, P=[printer name]:hp@hp41, X=ISO8859-1, Z=+,
0=ibm.850

***************************************************

Thank you!

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