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Hi,

Using SCO OS 5.0.5

I recently did all printing serially by using an old machine as a print
server and setting up lpd to print jobs to the two prnters connected to
thw old server (using a computone Intelliport II board). My app is on
a \notehr server hence teh need for remote printing.

Well, the old server's HD crashed today. As one of my printers had an
HP DirectJet card installed, I confogured it to the same IP address as
the old server anc connected one end of the cable to the printer
Network port and the other end to my hub.

Well, it works great except that after each print job, I get an extra
page with 4 lines of username, user job, etc... It looks like a banner
page but it is coming out AFTER each print job.

I haven't a clue on how to get rid of this extra page. Can anyone
point me in the right direction? I've looked at the printer management
section in "scoadmin" but could not find anything.

Thanks,
Don

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?

<brian@aljex.com> wrote in message
news:1112082362.883344.292480@g14g2000cwa.googlegr oups.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.
>

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.googlegr oups.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.