546011 - Firefox prints blank page on dot-matrix printer using 'Generic/Text Only' Driver

Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 452247

(Firefox :: General, defect)

Description

[saurabh]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.9.0.17) Gecko/2009122116 Firefox/3.0.17 (.NET CLR 3.5.30729)
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.9.0.17) Gecko/2009122116 Firefox/3.0.17 (.NET CLR 3.5.30729)

Setup a printer (on LPT1) , use 'Generic/Text Only' as the driver (it is supplied by default on Windows XP).
Open a web-page with Firefox (any web-page, preferably containing only text), print the page using this printer.. 
Firefox prints a blank page.

(Internet Explorer prints the page properly).

Background:
I need to print webpages from firefox onto a dot-matrix printer, firefox prints the text in 'Graphics' mode, that is, a single character is printed in multiple passes, thus causing excessive noise and approx 5 times slower printing. So added another printer this time using 'Generic / Text Only' driver from microsoft (present by default on XP).

Now the web-page is printed in character mode if I use Internet Explorer, but firefox prints nothing (actually it prints a blank page, because printer spews out an empty page).

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1.Setup a printer (on LPT1), use 'Generic/Text Only' as the driver (it is supplied by default on Windows XP).
2.Open a web-page with Firefox (any web-page, preferably containing only text), print the page using this printer.. 
3.Firefox prints a blank page.
Actual Results:  
Firefox prints a blank page

Expected Results:  
It should have printed the page in character mode (just like Internet Explorer does or notepad does)

Is there any way of efficiently printing text from web-pages onto a dot-matrix printer using firefox?

Printing 1 line of characters in several passes is slow, inefficient and loud and is generally unacceptable..