topic Re: Turning Off Printer Banner Pages in Operating System - Linux

Turning Off Printer Banner Pages

Andrew Kaplan — Thu, 26 Jun 2003 16:11:33 GMT

We have a Red Hat 8 workstation printing to a remote LaserJet 5mp connected via a parallel cable to an HP-UX 10.20 computer. When jobs are sent to the printer, banner pages are produced. I want to disable banner pages, but when I looked in the driver settings tab of the printer on the Red Hat system, there was nothing apparent that would indicate a means to turn off banner pages. Is there another way of accomplishing this task?

Re: Turning Off Printer Banner Pages

Umapathy S — Thu, 26 Jun 2003 16:15:34 GMT

Andrew,
Just my thoughts.

I got the same problem some time (years) back. I reset the printer settings to turn the banner pages off.

HTH,
Umapathy

Re: Turning Off Printer Banner Pages

Andrew Kaplan — Thu, 26 Jun 2003 19:17:31 GMT

Hi there,

I checked the printer configruation settings on the HP-UX box, but did not find anything there. Where else would I go to reset the printer?

Re: Turning Off Printer Banner Pages

Huc_1 — Fri, 27 Jun 2003 08:28:42 GMT

Hello

perhaps, you could be more specific.

What banner page do you have Redhat's or user...or hp, is there any hint where it is from

I would double check /etc/printcap files against man 5 printcap informations.

whatever keep us informed of progress.

Jean-Pierre

Re: Turning Off Printer Banner Pages

Francisco J. Soler — Fri, 27 Jun 2003 09:44:03 GMT

Hi,

Edit the printer script in hp-ux box:
/var/spool/lp/interface/printer_name

search for a variable banner="yes" and delete the yes like this:
banner="" (no spaces between "")

if you have not this variable, search for the command:

/usr/sbin/rlp and before this line put the following line:

BSDh="-h"

BTW you can send the header of your model script to help you more accuratelly.

Hope this helps.

Frank.

Re: Turning Off Printer Banner Pages

Andrew Kaplan — Fri, 27 Jun 2003 12:23:28 GMT

Frank,

Thanks for the information. I implemented your suggestion, and it appears to be working fine.