Lasrjet 4 + JetDirect i/f

Hugh Conner

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Oct 6, 1994, 4:22:10 AM10/6/94

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Excuse me if this has been asked before, but I don't normally read this group.

We have an HP Laserjet 4 with the JetDirect ethernet interface card. It is
connected to our network of Unix workstations. I have set up a printcap entry
for it on our machines, treating it as a remote printer, since the JetDirect
basically has a builtin Berkeley lpd print spooler (as I understand it).

Printing works ok, but I always get a banner page printed out at the end of
each job, with username, file name, etc.. This happens whether or not I put
the 'sh' entry in the printcap file. I suspect that the 'sh' is ignored
because the printer is treated as remote, and that I need to do something with
the printer itself to stop this page being printed, but I can find nothing in
the manual for either the printer, or the interface card which mentions such a
feature.

Can anyone tell me what needs to be done to get round this problem?

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Bill Hassell

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Oct 6, 1994, 6:04:16 PM10/6/94

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Hugh Conner (h...@cee.hw.ac.uk) wrote:

: Printing works ok, but I always get a banner page printed out at the end of

: each job, with username, file name, etc.. This happens whether or not I put
: the 'sh' entry in the printcap file. I suspect that the 'sh' is ignored
: because the printer is treated as remote, and that I need to do something with
: the printer itself to stop this page being printed, but I can find nothing in
: the manual for either the printer, or the interface card which mentions such a
: feature.

printcap is before-the-fact, and the banner page you're getting is from
the JetDirect card. Use lpr -h to send the message to the LAN card to
suppress the burst page.

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Kenneth Kueny

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Oct 7, 1994, 7:48:29 AM10/7/94

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Hugh Conner (h...@cee.hw.ac.uk) wrote:

> Printing works ok, but I always get a banner page printed out at the end of
> each job, with username, file name, etc.. This happens whether or not I put
> the 'sh' entry in the printcap file. I suspect that the 'sh' is ignored
> because the printer is treated as remote, and that I need to do something with
> the printer itself to stop this page being printed, but I can find nothing in
> the manual for either the printer, or the interface card which mentions such a
> feature.

Try editing the /usr/spool/lp/interface/<printer_name> shell script. Ususally
HP sets the banner flag "on" in these scripts. All you have to do is uncomment
the line that turns banners "off". It should be obvious.

Ralf Beck

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Oct 9, 1994, 4:55:58 PM10/9/94

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I am also interested in learning how to avoid the extra page.

To circumvent I wrote an interface program to connect to the printer
(port 9099) and transfer the data (only postscript so far) to the printer
for output.