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From: Bill Akers <akers@gseis.ucla.edu>
Date: Wed, 26 Feb 2003 10:42:52 -0800
Subject: PPR: ppr insert JCL?

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Anyone know of a way to get ppr to insert JCL into a postscript job?  I am 
trying to get around limitations in the OS X printer drivers.  Apparently, OS 
X does not pass JCL commands to the printer, even if you configure those 
options.

I am trying to get a Xerox Document Center 470 to hold a print job until a 
user releases it at the front panel of the unit.

A PC can do it.  It includes the following code which ends up in the comments 
file when ppr processes the job.

%%XRXbegin
%%OID_ATT_JOB_OWNER "Administrator";
%%OID_ATT_JOB_TYPE OID_VAL_JOB_TYPE_SECURE_PRINT;
%%OID_ATT_JOB_PASSWORD "AZUT";
%%OID_ATT_START_SHEET OID_VAL_JOB_SHEET_FULL;
%%OID_ATT_JOB_NAME "http://www.msn.com/";
%%OID_ATT_PRINT_QUALITY OID_VAL_PRINT_QUALITY_NORMAL;
%%OID_ATT_SNMP_CLIENT_NODE_ID "4.11.149.142.218.148.0.1.11.31329";
%%XRXend

I have been able to strip out unnecessary lines and find if I add the 
following lines to the comment file of any ppr job, the DC470 will put the 
job on hold until the end user releases it.

%%XRXbegin
%%OID_ATT_JOB_TYPE OID_VAL_JOB_TYPE_SECURE_PRINT;
%%OID_ATT_JOB_PASSWORD "";
%%OID_ATT_START_SHEET OID_VAL_JOB_SHEET_FULL;
%%OID_ATT_PRINT_QUALITY OID_VAL_PRINT_QUALITY_NORMAL;
%%XRXend

The jobs are comming in from the Mac as postscript via lprsrv.  I want to set 
up one ppr printer that would always add the above code.  I am running ppr 
1.44 on SuSE linux 7.3 for PPC.

Maybe I am approaching this the wrong way.  Any suggestions are very much 
welcome.

Thanks,

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Bill Akers
Director of Network Operations
UCLA Graduate School of Education and Information Studies
akers@ucla.edu
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