Re: banner pages..more stuff

Rich Shoemaker (rshoe@wwitch.unl.edu)
Fri, 16 May 1997 12:51:44 -0500

Regarding Herb's comments about banner pages:
Herb wrote:
>
> thanks to all those who made suggestions on suprssing extra pages being
> printed on HP
> Laser Printers from our Unity spectrometer. Since there was interest from
> others with similar problems, here is the fix that worked for us on our
> Unity 500 running old 4.8 version software.
>
> in the printcap file, add the lines
>
> :sh for supressing banner header page
> :sf for supressing form feed at end

This will work if the HP-Laser printer is directly connected to the
instrument; however, when using the "JetDirect" card, with the LaserJet
setup as an LPR server, you can still have problems, in that the extra
page may still print. On my Suns, I have to add the following entry at
the end of my printcap file: tr=\004:

This is a job-termination character, which also allows the LaserJet to
switch between modes (like TCP/IP <-> Appletalk) more efficiently.

This is under the older Sun-OS 4.1.3, so I don't know if any of this
applies to Solaris.

Rich S.

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