Using the splp command to change the parameter values of the printer device driver does not affect the operation of the spooler. Splp affects commands such as cat when they are used to access the device driver directly, bypassing the spooler. Printers will print either exactly what they are sent, if you set the job conditions up correctly, or, on the most current printers, you may be able to direct the printer to perform certain mappings for you. There are no carriage returns in this file, and the only blank line occurs immediately before this one. While this works well with text editors and in other similar situations, it does not work with printers.
Printers only print the data which they are sent.
Printers will print either exactly what they are sent, if you set the job conditions up correctly, or, on the most current printers, you may be able to direct the printer to perform certain mappings for you. There are no carriage returns in this file, and the only blank line occurs immediately before this one. In the first example, all of the device driver settings are honored. In particular, the mapping of a linefeed to a linefeed and a carriage return is turned on. When the device drivers is writing characters to the physical printer, it sends a carriage return after each linefeed.