Remove first character from file

I have an output file which has a control character at the beginning of this file. In using other programs (enscript & ps2pdf), this character (^L) produces errors in output. If I remove the character using vi, and run through enscript & ps2pdf, everything runs fine.

I am in the process of automating conversion of line output to PDF files to be sent to users instead of printing reports.

I have seen (somewhere, can't remember where) on using vi to delete the first character of the file.

Any suggestions on how to accomplish this?

Delete first character of first line of infile -

sed '1s/^.//' infile >> outfile