DOS Form Feed Character - ^L (ASCII 12) When printing from DOS's redirect, the printer does not always eject the page, this is because the printer is waiting for the Form Feed (FF) character. The following is an example of how you can implement a FF with DOS's native code. There are also third party utilities which can do this for you. This is useful when using DOS's commands within automated batch files that require the use of a printer. Create a file named EJECT by typing COPY CON EJECT at the DOS prompt and pressing Enter. You'll get a blank line. Press Ctrl-L, then Ctrl-Z (the DOS end-of-file character), and then Enter. DOS will respond with the message "1 file(s) copied." Now create a batch file and call it PEJECT.BAT by typing COPY CON PEJECT.BAT at the DOS prompt and pressing Enter. At the blank line, type COPY d:\path\EJECT LPT1 (assuming your printer is connected to LPT1) and press Enter. Then type Ctrl-Z and press Enter again to create the file.