topic Re: How to disable banner printing in HP-UX 11.11? in Operating System - HP-UX

How to disable banner printing in HP-UX 11.11?

Bob Fonacier — Mon, 08 Mar 2004 14:34:30 GMT

How do I disable banner printing in HP-UX?
After creating the printer, almost all prints came up with an annoying banner. This is quite urgent as Finance needs to print checks.
Pls help.

Re: How to disable banner printing in HP-UX 11.11?

Pete Randall — Mon, 08 Mar 2004 14:37:19 GMT

Bob,

Use "lp -onb".

Pete

Re: How to disable banner printing in HP-UX 11.11?

Dave Hutton — Mon, 08 Mar 2004 14:40:46 GMT

If your using the HP Jet Direct Printer installer you can turn off banners by doing this:
#/opt/hpnpl/bin/hppi
option 1
option 2
Type in the printer your changing.
Go to 4 "Additional printer changes..."
Option 3 "Banner Page" to off.

Dave

Re: How to disable banner printing in HP-UX 11.11?

A. Clay Stephenson — Mon, 08 Mar 2004 14:44:43 GMT

Typically you want to make "no banner" the default so that -onb (or whatever) is the specific "no banner" -o option for your particular print queue. There is no system-wide banner/ no banner setting. cd /var/spool/lp (and typically cd to model.orig). Edit each desired interface and set BANNER="" near the top of the file. Each model script is a little different but look for "banner" and see how it is set. If these are JetDirect printers, you will also need to telnet to each printer and set banner off and save the configuration.

Re: How to disable banner printing in HP-UX 11.11?

Bob Fonacier — Mon, 08 Mar 2004 14:56:43 GMT

Thanks all for the immediate response. I'll assign points later on after I sorted this problem.
In our case we're printing from Oracle Financial applications. When I tested direct printing from unix, it's also printing banners.
Our configuration is like this, from Unix it will go to our print server, then to Ricoh printer. Where will I configure? I change the entry "lp" to "lp -onobanner" in the $ORACLE_HOME/reports60/admin/printer/spoolcmd.sh file, but no luck.

Re: How to disable banner printing in HP-UX 11.11?

A. Clay Stephenson — Mon, 08 Mar 2004 15:05:37 GMT

In your case, the Ricoh is probably configured as a "Remote" (LPD protocol) printer rather than a "Network" (JetDirect protocol) printer. In that case, edit the interface file under /var/spool/lp/printername and set BSDh="-h" to suppress the banner.

Re: How to disable banner printing in HP-UX 11.11?

Bob Fonacier — Mon, 08 Mar 2004 17:19:58 GMT

Thanks A. Clay and others. Although quite a stressnous exercise for me because I have to configure ALL printers.
What I did was to remove banner printing for each printers:
cd /var/spool/lp/interface
cp
chown lp:lp *
vi
#Edit BSDh="-h"

Re: How to disable banner printing in HP-UX 11.11?

Keith Bevan_1 — Wed, 10 Mar 2004 08:12:34 GMT

Bob,

Additional info :-

If you are using remote printers and the lp scheduler you need to tackle this at source rather than from the print server.

Try swapping the -onobanner for :-

-oBSDh

In you application software you may be able to configure a queue to use the unix lpd queue and assign the -oBSDh flag then.

This would have the benefit of removing the banner as soon as the application has generated the printed job, and before it reaches the prinserver or the ricoh.

Keith

Re: How to disable banner printing in HP-UX 11.11?

Bob Fonacier — Wed, 10 Mar 2004 15:06:32 GMT

Hi Keith,

Actually I like to tackle this at source for all print jobs, so that I don't have to update each printer file at /var/spool/lp/interface.

How do I do this on Oracle Applications 11i reports? By the way I can't find "-onobanner" in unix, or should this be done on the Oracle side?

Bob