Date: Tue, 20 Mar 2001 22:17:14 -0800 From: "Ted Mittelstaedt" <tedm@toybox.placo.com> To: "John Daniel" <john@cell-works.com>, <questions@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: RE: Suppressing the banner page on a HPLJ 4 printer? Message-ID: <007301c0b1ce$92c160e0$1401a8c0@tedm.placo.com> In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.4.05.10103192113370.5690-100000@cell-works.com>
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If you go to http://www.daemonnews.org and read the article on my book The FreeBSD Corporate Networker's Guide, you will find a link to Chapter 8 on their website which is all about printing and tells you about this. Ted Mittelstaedt tedm@toybox.placo.com Author of: The FreeBSD Corporate Networker's Guide Book website: http://www.freebsd-corp-net-guide.com >-----Original Message----- >From: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG >[mailto:owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG]On Behalf Of John Daniel >Sent: Monday, March 19, 2001 6:36 PM >To: questions@FreeBSD.ORG >Subject: Suppressing the banner page on a HPLJ 4 printer? > > > >I am trying to get rid of the banner aka burst page when printing through >a jet direct card in a Hp laserjet 4 .MY box is fbsd 2.2.8 > >I've tried going through the front panel menu's but I can't find the >option to set banner=0. > >I tried telneting into the printer at it's ip address 192.168.1.200 but >the is no response( no telnet prompt no password prompt nothing). I don't >think its passworded and I'm not sure which port if any I need to try to >telnet into to adjust the menu. > >I've tried search the questions archive but I still can't get rid of the >banner page. > >Any suggestion? > >I tried several printcap file options > >including trying to address a specific port ( 9100 ) > >using a line" :lp=9100@rm=192.168.1.200:\ " > >Here is my printcap fille as it stands now minus the comment > ># @(#)printcap 5.3 (Berkeley) 6/30/90 ># $Id: printcap,v 1.5.2.1 1998/02/07 19:17:32 ache Exp $ >..... ># >#lp|local line printer:\ ># :sh:\ ># :lp=/dev/lpt0:sd=/var/spool/output/lpd:lf=/var/log/lpd-errs: > >lp|postscript|PostScript|local line printer:\ > >:lp=:rm=cwlp2:rp=RAW:sd=/var/spool/output/lpd:lf=/var/log/lpd-errs:sf:\ > :sh:mx#0: > >cwlp|HPLJ4:\ > :sh:rm=cwlp:rp=RAW:sd=/var/spool/lpd/cwlp:lf=/var/log/lpd-errs:sf:\ > :sh:mx#0: > >lptest|Rm130:\ > :lp=:rm=cwlp:rp=cwlp\ > :lf=/var/log/lpd-errs:\ > :sd=/var/spool/lpd/lptest:\ > :sh:mx#0: > >...... > >Is it true that thereis no way to control the banner page from here? > >TIA > > >------------------------------------------------------------------- >------------ >Never trust a Fat accountant or a skinny Santa Claus. > >-BD >------------------------------------------------------------------- >------------ > > >To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org >with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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