printing banner

[shahbaz_3]

Hi,

i configure a new Tally printer on my tru64 4.0F server as a remote printer.
my problem is this that it doesn't print banner.
but my old printer which is connected serially it does print banner.
Please tell me how to print banner using on remote printer.

[Alexey Borchev]

It is somewhere in /etc/prictcap, parameter name is sh.

I wolud read man printcap and fiddle with sh and maybe other parameters.

[shahbaz_3]

Hi Alexey,

Thanks for you update.
in /etc/printcap yes there is a parameter sh i have tried by toggling it on and off and also another parameter sb. changing any of these two parameters to on and off have no differrence. Now i put a new print server PRIAM. In priam print server there is an option to print banner i enable it too. but so far no improvement.

Regards,
Shahbaz

[Alexey Borchev]

Another place to look at - is a print command.
There are two commands: lp and lpr.
I am using lpr.
1) See man lpr - there are keys about burst page.
2) As far as I see, lp is for local printers, lpr - for remote, too.