Printer problems under sol2.6

hello,
Its asked prob before but I could not find it back.
I got 2 problems with my printer configuration atm:
First is that it puts default a banner for every print job I print from my servers. This is causing a lot of useless prints. In the man pages is writen down that it should be default off but as you can guess by now its not. The option lp -o nobanner works but I want this to be solved permantly with the printer configuration. How can I do this?
Second, The same printers got problems with printing to the hp4000 printers (network printers) the end of line is translated wrongly. This should be solved with a filter (/usr/bin/unix2dos) where/how can I put this in effect?
thanks,
Philo

Hi,
The root user can modify any printers interface script. For example, to turn off the printing of a banner page, edit
/etc/lp/interfaces/printer_name on the print server and change the nobanner line from:
nobanner="no"
to
nobanner="yes"
Revert back.
Thanks,
Senthilkumar
SUN - DTS

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Last edited by Behemot (2011-03-18 10:24:04)

Behemot wrote:Tried under XP, same problem, so I got another LPT cable somewhere -> print good under XP. Tried under Arch, some strange stuff, changed HP driver for HPCUPS, LJ 2100 prints fine.
Have you considered the fact that there may be something wrong with the printer and/or connection?

Printer problems under sol2.6

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