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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!munnari.OZ.AU!news.hawaii.edu!ames!agate!howland.reston.ans.net!tank.news.pipex.net!pipex!news.mathworks.com!fu-berlin.de!irz401!orion.sax.de!uriah.heep!news From: j@uriah.heep.sax.de (J Wunsch) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Re: Printcap Problems with HP Direct Jet lpd Date: 21 Jul 1996 08:46:25 GMT Organization: Private BSD site, Dresden Lines: 16 Message-ID: <4ssqp1$5k8@uriah.heep.sax.de> References: <4ss108$fea@mulga.cs.mu.oz.au> Reply-To: joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de (Joerg Wunsch) NNTP-Posting-Host: localhost.heep.sax.de Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Newsreader: knews 0.9.6 X-Phone: +49-351-2012 669 X-PGP-Fingerprint: DC 47 E6 E4 FF A6 E9 8F 93 21 E0 7D F9 12 D6 4E drew@ariel.ucs.unimelb.EDU.AU (Andrew Heath) wrote: > I have had a problem with a banner pages being constantly printed. > It is wasting a huge number of pages and I can't seem to turn it off. Your printcap file does not help. You have to turn off banner printing in the JetDirect card itself. (telnet to the card, and ask `help' to see the options.) Alas, some older JetDirect's didn't even support turning it off. -- cheers, J"org joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de -- http://www.sax.de/~joerg/ -- NIC: JW11-RIPE Never trust an operating system you don't have sources for. ;-)