Printer prints extra sheet and wastes paper

[wc5b]

I am loving Ubuntu so much that I talked my Father into installing it on his machine. This is nice because I can easily remote over to it instead of driving over when he has some silly problem. He is very new to computers and looses his mind over little crap when something happens that he has not seem before. ANYTHING! Now he is demanding reinstalling windows because of this stupid problem that I am stumped on also. He does a lot of ancestry.com stuff, and finds the need to print out 100s of charts. There was nothing wrong but waisted ink before switching to Ubuntu. Now after each chart, it plasters an extra sheet after each with the URL at the top, and page and time at the bottom. Thats it. One page of information, and then it just waists an extra sheet. I can't for the life of me figure out why. I have shrink to fit selected, and even if I didnt, its not printing off anything but headers and footers. I even turned that option off (which I would have to do for EVERY print job) and it still spits a blank extra page out. Please someone help me with this so I dont have to fix 1000 problems a week due to windows being back on it.

Thanks
Tom

[SoFl W]

Tom, I would first like to HIGHLY recommend GRAMPS (http://gramps-project.org/), it is available in the software package manager.

I believe ancestry.com has something funky with their printing of charts or web pages, I don't remember what it was, give me a chance to think about that. If you can convince him to go with GRAMPS, I think he would be very happy.

[coffeecat]

This extra page sounds like Firefox. Am I right? What web browser was your father using in Windows?

[SoFl W]

When I used ancestory.com it was on a Windows machine. I have to get the password to go any further.

Have you explained to your father about printing to a PDF instead of directly to the printer? The would allow him to save a copy.

[jtarin]

I agree with the .pdf or make a copy of the page and paste it in Open Office for editing. I do web pages like that all the time....in Windows too. It's not a failing of Linux it's becoming accustomed to a different tool. There might be a setting in CUPS (http://localhost:631/) to take care of that.

[theophiles]

If it is a firefox problem, there are other browsers. Epiphany and Chrome come to mind right away.

[jtarin]

Here is a better explanation and a correction. (http://www.blackdog4kids.com/remove-printing.html)

And if that is not enough for your reading pleasure..... (http://www.google.com/webhp?hl=en#hl=en&&sa=X&ei=9IyETLTwM4OFOJfk0OQO&ved=0CBEQBSgA&q=url+date+are+printed+from+web+page&spell=1&fp=796331d53cf0eef)

[Boss Happy]

I had this problem with PDF files. After extensive hair pulling, I discovered that my printer had been set to Duplex (double sided printing). I had to turn off this option in the Printer Manager AND when I first printed a job (through the Printer "Options..." button). Now it works wonderfully. :D