Yes, if you have anything at all in the printer buffer set up by VFP, it will issue a form feed when you change to another printer. Did you try my little trick to let a file "eat" the form feed? I used it a lot in "the good old days".
>It seems that every time VFP sees a SET PRINTER TO command it forces a form feed. And the formfeed occurs every time the program is ran.
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>>I believe VFP tries to be smart, and sends a Form Feed every time you change printer. Anyway, there is an easy way around this.
>>Set printer to dump.dmp
>>Eject
>>Set printer to name (cPrinter)
>>Erase dump.dmp
>>
>>>Hi all,
>>>
>>>Why does the printer ejects a page when I send this ESC codes to it? We are using the LQ-570e printer. But even when selecting a laser printer, a form feed still occurs.
>>>
>>>cPrinter = getprinter()
>>>if !empty(cPrinter)
>>> set printer to name (cPrinter)
>>> set printer on
>>> * Change the font to COURIER
>>> * This line causes the printer to issue a form feed
>>> ??? chr(27)+chr(107)+'2'
>>> ? "Hello world"
>>> set printer off
>>> set printer to
>>>endif
>>>