Re: [SuSE Linux] printing banner page.
On Sun, 8 Nov 1998, Juergen Braukmann wrote:
I think what luis wanted was a banner page *prior* to every job as a seperator to the next *and* clue to the operator who is responsible for the 400 page postscript source just printed. ;-)))
as far as i know, this is as printcap entry, the entry "sh" thst means 'supress headers' and since you want them this entry should not be there. I'd suggest to look into "man printcap", search for "banner", (type "/banner" whilst in the man page) and it takes you there.
Juergen, yes you understood me correctly, and it's the one thing that's stopping me from using SAMBA on a linux to replace printing on NT and NOVELL. I took sh out of my /etc/printcap , I now get a banner page with the User ID printed on a single sheet prior to every job but it doesn't look good, ie. the formatting is not right. The ID I used was luis and on the print it looks something like this.... ll l i l l u u ii ssss l u u I can see where it's trying to tell me the print job is for luis but hahahahahaha. --- - To get out of this list, please send email to majordomo@suse.com with this text in its body: unsubscribe suse-linux-e
Luis Costabile wrote:
On Sun, 8 Nov 1998, Juergen Braukmann wrote: [...]
into "man printcap", search for "banner", (type "/banner" whilst in the man page) and it takes you there.
Juergen, yes you understood me correctly, and it's the one thing that's stopping me from using SAMBA on a linux to replace printing on NT and NOVELL. I took sh out of my /etc/printcap , I now get a banner page with the User ID printed on a single sheet prior to every job but it doesn't look good, ie. the formatting is not right. The ID I used was luis and on the print it looks something like this....
ll l i l l u u ii ssss l u u
I can see where it's trying to tell me the print job is for luis but hahahahahaha.
good one Luis, never loose your sense of humor!!! what you experienced is called "staricase effect" (this is a guess, next to hear you cough on a phone an tell you've got pneumonia...). This happens if you set a printer to unintelligen dos mode. Imagine, a silly printer (on dos) *must* be told to RETURN is CARRIAGE and FEED a LINE. A clever printer (Linux) knows if he/she hears FEED a LINE, it has to return it carriage as well. ;-)) DOS: newline = <CR><LF>, Un*x: only LF You have to RTFM. (Printer Manual, look for DIP-switches, Unix, ...) Cheers Juergen -- ========================================== __ _ Juergen Braukmann mail: brauki@cityweb.de| -o)/ / (_)__ __ ____ __ Tel: 0201-743648 dk4jb@db0qs.#nrw.deu.eu| /\\ /__/ / _ \/ // /\ \/ / ==========================================_\_v __/_/_//_/\_,_/ /_/\_\ - To get out of this list, please send email to majordomo@suse.com with this text in its body: unsubscribe suse-linux-e
Hi, Yes I'm familiar with the staircase effect, but this time it's not a classic case of staircase effect, this time it only happens on the banner page, the rest of the job prints fine. If I don't use banner page, jobs print fine. It doesn't look like a perfect staircase since sometimes the characters are printed twice and three times, as if they were to be printed in BOLD, ie, over strike. I'm still hacking at this banner page thing, surely someone has got this to work. On Tue, 10 Nov 1998, Juergen Braukmann wrote:
what you experienced is called "staricase effect" (this is a guess, next to hear you cough on a phone an tell you've got pneumonia...). This happens if you set a printer to unintelligen dos mode. Imagine, a silly printer (on dos) *must* be told to RETURN is CARRIAGE and FEED a LINE. A clever printer (Linux) knows if he/she hears FEED a LINE, it has to return it carriage as well. ;-))
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