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From: "David S. Chappell" <David.Chappell@mail.trincoll.edu> Date: Fri, 25 Feb 2000 12:36:17 -0500 Subject: RE: PPR: RE: LPR printing from a Macintosh At 02:02 PM 02/24/2000 -0600, Dan Bongert wrote: >See, I'm not using the PAP stuff, I'm using LPR (only one Mac user doesn't make >it worth it to do that). I've tried using the banner page from the drop down >menu, but 1) that doesn't get a nice PPR banner page, and 2) only prints the >banner page, and no content. > >The user is content without cover pages, but I'd prefer to do that. > >I got a response from comp.mac.sys.printing recommending something similar: > >> The Mac LPR code does not request a banner page. There is a cover page panel >> however that can be used to enable a Mac cover page. > >Is it possible that the Mac is somehow disabling PPR banner pages? Yes, an LPR client can ask to have the banner page suppressed. (In BSD lpr or uprint-lpr this is done by using the -h option.) If the LPR client asks to have banner pages suppressed lprsrv (through libuprint) adds "-b no" to the ppr command line. However, ppr considers this to be a request, not an order. Whether a banner page is printed depends no only on the user preference expressed through "ppr -b" but on the printers "ppad flags" setting. To force banner pages even when the Macintosh (or any other user) tries to suppress them, do this: $ ppad myprn flags always no The "always" says that a banner page should be printed even if the user tries to prevent it. (The "no" says that trailer pages should not be printed unless the user requests them.) I have changed the ppr, ppad, and lprsrv documentation (in the PPR 1.41 draft version) to make all this clearer. ================================================================ David Chappell David.Chappell@Mail.Trincoll.Edu Computing Center PostMaster@Mail.Trincoll.Edu Trinity College (860) 297-2114 Hartford, Connecticut 06106