Banner Pages with lp

[Simon Abbott]

Hello everyone,

Silly question probably, but I've just installed a printer and it prints a banner page every time I print something.

Anyone know how to unset the banner page option?

Cheers,

Simon.

[Helen French]

Hi,

If your printer name is 'pr1', then check for the file called - /etc/lp/interface/pr1.

Edit this file with 'vi' and search for 'banner' command. Put a '#' sign in those lines in order to avoid banner command.

HTH,
Shiju

[A. Clay Stephenson]

Hi:

Not so silly a question but the answer is that it depends. Typically it's simply lp -dmyprinter -onb myfile. The -onb is no banner BUT this can vary from interface to interface. You need to cd to /var/spool/lp/interface and look for your particular printer. In this example the interface file would be 'myprinter'. THis is almost always simply a script so lloking for the no banner option is easy.

It this is a network printer, sometimes you need to telnet to the printer directly and turn off the banner there as well.

[Craig Rants]

Simon,
You can also control this through jetadmin, when you configure a printer there is an option to turn of the banner page.

GL,
C

[Sanjay_6]

Hi simon,

Try the "-o nb" option with the lp command.

Hope this helps.

Regds

[BFA6]

Hi,

This is how I normally remove the banner

cd /etc/lp/interface
vi
find banner="yes" and remove yes

Regards,

Hilary

[Steve Steel]

Hi

In /etc/lp/interface or model.orig under it
you have a scrip[t on the printer name.

Find banner="yes"

Make

banner=""

Steve Steel

[Bill McNAMARA_1]

send the print jobs with

lp -onb

(option no banner)

Later,
Bill

[Charles Holland]

If it is interfaced through a jetdirect card you should be able to telnet to the card and turn off the banner option.

[Simon Abbott]

Hello everyone,

Thanks for all your replys, however I've still not been able to remove the banner. I installed the printer onto the parallel port on an xterm using the envisex adminitstation utility in SAM after installing netstation. So the file in /etc/lp/interface/ is a 'Network Peripheral Model Script'. I then installed the printer as remote on other machines so the scrtipts in their /etc/lp/interface/ directories describes itself as a remote printer script. I cannot seem to find any entries for a banner command in either file.

Lp -onb does work however but I do need it to be default.

Any more ideas?

Many thanks,

Simon.

[Sanjay_6]

Hi Simon,

try this,

Go to /etc/lp/interface.

Edit the printer file and look for the keywork PRINTERCFG. This should point to a file say, /opt/hpnp/admin/printer/11.cfg

edit 11.cfg and look for BANNER under printer_defaults. Set BANNER="no", save this file and exit. Try the printing once again.

Hope this helps.

Regds

[Simon Abbott]

Hello again,

I found why I wasn't finding the banner="yes" line. The script I was looking at in /etc/lp/interface was calling another script of the same name in /etc/lp/interface/model.orig. This is where the banner="yes" was hiding. A quick edit and all is well.

Thanks to everyone for you help,

Simon.