supressing printer banner page

[Joachim Hussong]

Hi,

we are using a net printer served by an AIX spooler.

How to supress the banner page which gives job number and other stuff?
For our little user group this is not necessary and it wastes a lot of
paper, because printing one page jobs leads to a two page output.

Joachim

[Martin Diefenbach]

You could use the option `-h', which suppresses the header page, eg.,

lpr -h <file.ps>
or
enscript -h <file.txt>

(assuming you have a PostScript printer)
and tell your group to alias the print commands.
See also ``man lpr'' and ``man enscript''

Gruss,
Martin

[Joachim Hussong]

Hi,

> lpr -h <file.ps>
> or
> enscript -h <file.txt>

Yes, but what has to be done to supress it by default?

What entries have to be added or changed in the qconfigorwhateverfile?
It's mentioned in the lpr man page that the printing of this page is
default. Therefore it should be possible to disable it!

Joachim

[LAIX Software Consulting]

Banner pages are generated if:
1- you have "header = always" in /etc/qconfig for the queue
2- you use a print command that generates a header by default (lpr instead
of lpr -h)
3- you specifically request them: qprt -Ban
4- you are remote printing to a server that generates a header page

If you wish to make a queue incapable of generating a header, use lsvirprt
to blank out the "sh" attribute which invokes pioburst command to generate
the header. With no sh attribute, the queue cannot generate a header even
if one is requested.

Best regards,
Paul Laymon
laix...@flash.net
http://www.flash.net/~laixsoft

Joachim Hussong wrote:

> Hi,
>
> we are using a net printer served by an AIX spooler.
>
> How to supress the banner page which gives job number and other stuff?
> For our little user group this is not necessary and it wastes a lot of
> paper, because printing one page jobs leads to a two page output.
>

> Joachim

[Pascal Heger]

Hi ,

Go into SMIT using "smit pq_chquedev"
Type in the queuename, and set header and trailer pages to "never"

Regards, Pascal

[David B. Huber]

On AIX 4, use the 'smit chvirprt' fastpath to the queue and toggle through
the 'SEPARATOR PAGES' options.

On AIX 3, use 'lsvirprt' in interactive mode - I forget which switch
controls the banner page...

BTW, even under AIX 4 the old lsvirprt can still be useful for getting at
parameters SMIT hides. Specifically, if using pass-through (slave) printing
on a terminal, the y1 (maximum CPS), y2 (packet size) and y3 (printer buffer
size) options should be set to match those you configured for 'TRANSPARENT
PRINT' at the terminal level (smitty tty).

HTH.

Dave Huber

Joachim Hussong <joachim...@dlr.de> wrote in message
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[Andrew Melchert]

If you are using the lpr command in whatever is spooling the jobs, you can
add the -h parameter which will suppress the header page. If you are using
another command try using man to find the correct syntax.

Good Luck

Andrew..

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Hi,

we are using a net printer served by an AIX spooler.

How to supress the banner page which gives job number and other stuff?
For our little user group this is not necessary and it wastes a lot of
paper, because printing one page jobs leads to a two page output.

Joachim

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