Banner Page

[Burt Avery]

Hi:

It's been my experience HP printers, as far back as the LJ 4 (I cannot
vouch for LJ 3s), have a setting that can modified via a telent connection
in case your UNIX host sends a banner; something like  banner: 0|1 after
you make the telnet connect.

-ba-



At 07:50 PM 1/18/2000 +1100, HpG wrote:
>Hi all
>Same behaviour with my Laserjet 4MPlus
>
>As far as I know, on the newer HP-ps-printers,
>it is possible to turn this info page off.
>It is a thing which does the printer by itself.
>
>All you have to do, is to telnet to your printer
>and turn this option off.
>
>My version is an older one (unfortunately), so
>I can't do it.
>
>Hanspeter
>
>
>Christof Hellweg wrote:
>> 
>> The Banner Page come out after the printjob but the page is blank!
>> My printcap:
>> hp4si|lp7|PS_600dpi-a4-raw|PS_600dpi a4 raw:\
>>         :lp=/dev/lp0:\
>>         :sd=/var/spool/lpd/hp4si:\
>>         :lf=/var/spool/lpd/hp4si/log:\
>>         :af=/var/spool/lpd/hp4si/acct:\
>>         :if=/var/lib/apsfilter/bin/PS_600dpi-a4-raw:\
>>         :la@:mx#0:\
>>         :tr=:cl:sh:sf:
>> 
>> Richard Sharpe schrieb:
>> >
>> > At 06:50 PM 1/18/00 +1100, Christof Hellweg wrote:
>> > >Hi!
>> > >I have the same problem with SuSE 6.3.
>> > >And I have sh in my printcap. What is the problem now?
>> > >Christof Hellweg
>> >
>> > What do these banner pages look like?  Do they come out after the print
>> > job, and consist of a few lines on the top of the page?
>> >
>> > If so, I have seen them on a RH6.0 system, but do not know what causes
them.
>> >
>
>


Burt Avery
Computer Systems Engineer
LSP
Department of Biomedical Engineering
University of Virginia
Charlottesville, VA 22908
804-924-8065 (w)
804-245-5813 (h)