stop the banner page for a remote printer

[Catherine Forget]

Hi,
I am trying to disable the banner page for a remote printer setup on a C3750 running HP-UX11.11.
I tried to put BSDh="-h", and reset the print scheduler but it did not worked.
What should I do?
I am not user jetdirect.

Thanks

[Bill Hassell]

What does the banner page look like? HP-UX will not print a banner page to remote printers. What is the print server? Is it WinNT or similar, or is it a Sun box or Linux? HP-UX banner pages can only be created inside the printer script and the remote printer setup has no code to generate anything. Is it really a banner page in front of the job or a trailer page at the end?

[A. Clay Stephenson]

Well, the -h option is only a request to the reomote printer; it's not a guarantee that the remote printer daemon will honor it. If this is a printer hosted by another computer, you might try looking on that box. Otherwise, you may be able to configure the printer and/or the external network print server directly to not do a banner page.

[Catherine Forget]

The banner is printed before the document.
there is a gray square at the top with a big LP in the top left corner. There are 3 lines stating the user:xxxx,
Request : printer-### from sbcat2 which is the server name.
There is another square "Option summuray" from net_ljx000.
The thing is that the server (HP-UX 10.20) is not using jetadmin but the w/s does.
Though, since I do not know how to configure a remote printer through jetadmin, I did it with SAM.
We still have an old w/s running 10.20 also and if we print from it, there are no banner.

Thanks again for your help.

[Bill Hassell]

That is definitely being generated by HP-UX. Now the question is: how is the printer connected? You mentioned two computers, a server and a workstation. Since this is the obsolete/unsupported 10.20 software, SAM uses jetadmin *IF* you chose "network" printer and not "remote" printer. "network" is for JetDirect interface cards. To see how the printer is connected, use SAM and look at "Type" and "Location". Type=remote means that the printer is being run by another computer and that computer controls the default banner page setting. lp -onb will override the value *IF* the remote computer is also HP-UX.

[Steve Post]

if jetdirect....
telnet
set banner:0
save <--I think
quit


if you want to disable it from unix when printing: "lp -dmy_printer -onb"
-o = option
nb = No Banner

another thing to look at....
In directory
/etc/lp/interfaces/model.orig
might be a file with the name of your printer.
Look at a copy of it.
Buried in it could be the command unix is looking for to disable the banner page.
The command is "-onb" for me.

steve

[Catherine Forget]

It is working now. The printer on the server was configure remote to another machine which do not have the printer configure. Do not ask me why it is setup that way, I do not know.
Thanks to all.