LPRng: Yet another LPRng question!!!!

[William R. Knox]

Assuming this is an HP printer (and the banner does look as though it
is), you need to telnet to the printer and type 

banner: 0

and then quit in order to get the banner pages turned off (make sure the
"quit" command is the  command to exit and save changes). As far as I
have seen, this can't be turned off from the JetDirect software or from
the front panel on any version of the HP printer. Annoying, huh?

-- 
			Bill Knox
			Senior Operating Systems Programmer/Analyst
			The MITRE Corporation

Gerry Maddock wrote:
> 
> OK, Im able to print from linux and from Samba! Now I just get banners before each
> print job. The banner looks like this:
> User: gerrym
> Host: penguin.futuremetals.com
> Class: A
> Job: /etc/printcap
> 
> It prints that little bit of info on 1 page before whatever I told it to print! I
> don't want that! Here is a copy of my /etc/printcap:
> 
> nero:sd=/var/spool/lpd/nero:tr\f:if=/usr/libexec/filters/ifhp:rm=nero:sh
> Doesn't the "sh" mean suppress headers????? Why am I still getting them? I've
> stopped and restarted the lpd several times and I still get the banners. One other
> thing I noticed: If I do the following command: lpr /etc/hosts I get a good copy of
> my hosts file, meaning all the rows are lined up etc...
> When I enter the following command: lpr /etc/printcap I get stair stepping of the
> sentences. Ronnie I think your having this same problem. I wondered what is the
> difference in those to files so I entered the following 2 commands:
> file /etc/printcap
> file /etc/host
> Host is ASCII text, printcap is English text. What's the difference? Am I able to
> change the English text to ASCII text? If so how, and would that effect anything?
> 
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