Re: Printing an extra (banner?) page - wnat to get rid of it.

From: Ian Wilson (scobloke2_at_infotop.co.uk)
Date: 03/29/05 

Date: Tue, 29 Mar 2005 15:08:24 +0000 (UTC)

Please don't top-post!

Ref: removing banner pages on Laser printers with JetDirect cards
installed. <OP removed context on followup>

John wrote:
> <brian@aljex.com> wrote in message
> news:1112082362.883344.292480@g14g2000cwa.googlegroups.com...
>
>>Lets say the print servers IP is 10.0.0.24
>>
>>telnet 10.0.0.24
>>banner 0
>>quit
>>
>>You may or may not be prompted after the quit, with a "Save Y/N" and
>>you want Y of course, but on some models "quit" means "save & exit" and
>>doesn't prompt you, so either way, the above does the job.
>>
>>It sounds backwards that "quit" would save, and "exit" would discard,
>>but that's the way they are. Some models have a more sensible "save"
>>command but on these, if you type "quit", it asks you Save Y/N and so
>>all one has to remember is you just always use quit on any HP print
>>server.
>>

> Hi,
>
> Thanks for your reply.
>
> I am printing via the /etc/printcap file. I looked for options to
not print
> the banner but could not find any. The line is:
>
> hprprinter:\
>
:lp=:rm=rmachine:rp=hprpprinter:sd=/usr/spool/lpd/hprpprinter:mx#0
>
> Any idea?
>

I think you need to read Brians reply again.

Banners are controlled at the JetDirect. You need to configure the
Jetdirect to not print them. One way to do this is to telnet to the
printer as Brian suggested. You can type "?" and "/" for a list of
commands and current config (from memory).

AFAIK, the "banner" settings in printcap just determine what printing
suggestions get passed to the JetDirect card. In my experience the
JetDirect either ignores it or gives its internal settings higher
priority (or maybe OSR5 doesn't actually send it - I've never been
motivated to find out). IME, for LPD printers, OSR5 does no significant
preprocessing of the print data.

The LPR/LPD model seems to imply that clients merely request options.
The "LPD server", to which the printer is directly attached, is the one
that actually implements the requested processing and conversions etc.

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