Disable banner with HPDPS

[Jason Hill]

Hi,

I have a laser jet 4si printer connected to an HP-UX 11i system. HPDPS is used to send jobs to the printer. Approx 20+ other unix servers (various os's) have remote BSD style printers defined pointing at the HP-UX 11i box. Everything works great apart from I cannot disable the banner page. When I print using pdpr or lp the banner appears. When I print using lp and the -onb option the banner does not appear. I need to disable the banner by default so that when users print from the HP-UX 11i box or all the other servers no banner appears. I do not want to alias the ls command. I cannot edit the model/interface script because there isn't one, this is HPDPS. I have tried messing around with the pdset command, e.g., changing the value of job-sheets-supported to none (the default was job-set-start) but it didn't help. Can anyone offer guidance for disabling the banner?

[Michael Steele_2]

First try: lp -onb

If this fails try:

Create an initial-value-job for Spooler1:

pdcreate -c initial-value-job -x "job-sheets=none" Spooler1:no_banner_IVJ

Disable logical printer logptr and assign the initial-value-job to it:

pddisable logptr

pdset -c printer -x "printer-initial-value-job=no_banner_IVJ" logptr

Re-enable the printer:
pdenable logptr

[Jason Hill]

Thanks for the info, but it did not help. These are the commands I used:

# pdcreate -c initial-value-job -x "job-sheets=none" spooler01:no_banner_IVJ
# pddisable laser
# pdset -c printer -x "printer-initial-value-job=no_banner_IVJ" laser
# pdenable laser

Now when I try to print I get:

# ls|lp
lp: HPDPS error (The value none that was specified or defaulted for attribute job-sheets is not supported by the logical printer or by any of its associated physical pr??~.Proot@hp11i:/>

I removed the initial value job so I could continue to print:

# pddisable laser
# pdset -c printer -x "printer-initial-value-job-=no_banner_IVJ" laser
# pdenable laser

# ls|lp
request id is laser-71 (-1065113605 filesstandard input)

I've no idea why I get negative numbers reported by lp but not concerned with that for now.

Anyone got more ideas?