From owner-freebsd-hackers Mon Sep 22 19:10:37 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) id TAA08150 for hackers-outgoing; Mon, 22 Sep 1997 19:10:37 -0700 (PDT) Received: from fly.HiWAAY.net (root@fly.HiWAAY.net [208.147.154.56]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) with ESMTP id TAA08143 for ; Mon, 22 Sep 1997 19:10:34 -0700 (PDT) Received: from nospam.hiwaay.net (tnt1-130.HiWAAY.net [208.147.147.130]) by fly.HiWAAY.net (8.8.6/8.8.6) with ESMTP id VAA11465; Mon, 22 Sep 1997 21:10:21 -0500 (CDT) Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by nospam.hiwaay.net (8.8.7/8.8.4) with ESMTP id UAA06031; Mon, 22 Sep 1997 20:31:19 -0500 (CDT) Message-Id: <199709230131.UAA06031@nospam.hiwaay.net> X-Mailer: exmh version 2.0zeta 7/24/97 To: Andrew Gordon Cc: hackers@FreeBSD.ORG From: dkelly@hiwaay.net Subject: Re: lpr/lpd and HP networked printers In-reply-to: Message from Andrew Gordon of "Tue, 23 Sep 1997 00:29:20 BST." Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Date: Mon, 22 Sep 1997 20:31:19 -0500 Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk Andrew Gordon writes: > > So, I still think a change to lpr/lpd would be useful, though so far > it looks like I am in a minority of 1.... I don't think the banner page you are seeing originated in your FreeBSD box, so there is no way lpr/lpd could be changed to delete it. You didn't say what printer name you were printing to on the HP. As I remember there are two names HP supports, "text" and "raw". Forgot which was considered default. But if you had an old Sun that was able to print without this banner page then maybe one of these devices doesn't include the banner? Another idea about the Sun was that it might not have been printing via lpd. HP has downloadable software for printing on JetDirect printers that provides GUI control and status of the printer. By that backdoor one might disable banner printing on a job by job basis. "Modern" Solaris is such a pain to set up standalone networked printers that HP's JetDirect software is a real blessing. -- David Kelly N4HHE, dkelly@hiwaay.net ===================================================================== The human mind ordinarily operates at only ten percent of its capacity -- the rest is overhead for the operating system.