Date: Tue, 23 Sep 1997 08:51:52 -0400 (EDT) From: Jamie Bowden <jamie@itribe.net> To: Andrew Gordon <arg@arg1.demon.co.uk> Cc: Joerg Wunsch <joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de>, hackers@freebsd.org, Troy Curtiss <troyc@sandy.merix.com>, Michael Reifenberger <root@totum.plaut.de> Subject: Re: lpr/lpd and HP networked printers Message-ID: <199709231241.IAA08760@gatekeeper.itribe.net> In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.3.91.970923001957.29070A-100000@server.arg.sj.co.uk>
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Yes you need a firmware upgrade. I have a 4mv here that I had to upgrade to turn off the banners. On Tue, 23 Sep 1997, Andrew Gordon wrote: > On Tue, 23 Sep 1997, J Wunsch [and others!] wrote: > > As Andrew Gordon wrote: > > > > > This is easy enough to fix, though it is not obvious which is the > > > correct way. There are a number of possibilities: > > > > 6) Telnet to your JetDirect, and turn off banner pages. That's > > how i always did it. > > Well, I have now tried the three printers that I can access remotely, > and none of them support this (they support the telnet prompt for > configuration, but banners are not one of the available options; I tried > typing the suggested "banner:0" in case it was an undocumented feature, > but that gave me an error). These three machines are various different > models of laserjet 4 (4M, 4M+ etc.), aged between 2 and 4 years old. > Maybe there has been a firmware upgrade since; I certainly spent plenty > of effort (including talking to HP support) trying to find a way to > disable it at the time the first one was installed, but to no avail. > > Also, I have since spoken to someone with an Intel NetPort Express > (an external ethernet interface for ordinary parallel/serial printers), > and he has the exact same problem, again with no obvious means to > turn off the banner in the configuration. In both that case and the > HP, it responds correctly to the banner controls in the lpr protocol. > > 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.... > Jamie Bowden System Administrator, iTRiBE.net Abusenet: The Misinformation Superhighway
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