I spent today exhaustively testing various cases of 5.5 network printing
to see if some of the "gotchas" we experienced with NetPrint92 were handled
better by HP.

It seems to me that CCTLs %102 (enable perf skip) and %103 (disable perf skip)
are broken, contrary to the 5.5 Native Mode Spooler manual which says they
are supported and functional.

I generated some test output, and confirmed via PRINTSPF that bit 14 of the
P2 field of the spoolfile records was accurately reflecting the %102 and %103
CCTLs.  Yet when the spoolfile is sent to a network printer, it looks like
the spooler never emits the ESC&l0L and ESC&l1L PCL sequences to alter the
printer behavior in the perf region.  The same spoolfile works fine when
sent to a serial printer.

I just opened a call with the Response Center, but since it's after 5PM PDT,
I won't hear anything until Monday, unless of course one of the Spoolers'R'Us
folks replies to this public posting over the weekend.  :-)
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