Hi Patrick,
Thanks for replying. Unfortunately, I couldn't get both banner page
and the job stappled together. In fact the jobs now never get
stapled. Did we miss something?
Any other hacks?
I've tried this with lprng-3.6.24 and ifhp-3.3.21
Thanks,
( John Saroglou E-Mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] )
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[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
> > From [EMAIL PROTECTED] Thu Aug 10 15:54:38 2000
> > Hi all,
> >
> > We're trying to enable stapling on hp8100 and we're running into the
> > following problem:
> >
> > Our current print queue defintion is as follows:
> >
> > ------------ printcap entry
> > test
> > :sd=/var/spool/lprng/queues/test
> > :pl#60:mx#0
> > :af=acct:lf=log:ps=status
> > :bp=/usr/local/lib/filters/psbanner
> > :ab
> > :rw:lp=some_host%9100
> > :if=/usr/local/lib/filters/ifhp -Tquiet=on,debug=0,accounting=,status=off
> > :of=/usr/local/lib/filters/ifhp
-Tbanner=off,quiet=on,debug=0,accounting=,status=off
> >
> > We've enabled the stapling feature from the front panel on the actual
> > printer and it seems to staple except the banner page. So what we get
> > is banner page first and then the actual job being stapled.
> >
> > I think this is due to banner page not being part of the actual print
> > job since it gets processed separately.
> >
> > How can one get both banner and the actual print job stapled together?
> >
> > One way I was thinking of, is to prepend the contents of the banner
> > page with some specific PCL code that enables stapling.
> > However, I'm not so sure on how to make banner page be part of the
> > print job if at all possible.
> >
> > (running lprng-3.5.1).
> >
> > Any suggestions/pointers/ideas?
> >
> >
> > Thanks in advance.
> >
> >
> > -- John
>
> Well, I worked on this a bit. The problem here is that it appears
> that this model of printer does not support nested jobs. So you
> will have to do HORRIBLE things with the ifhp filter to get this.
>
> a) Update to the latest version of LPRng.
> b) get the latest beta version of ifhp:
> ftp://ftp.astart.com/pub/LPRng/private/ifhp-3.3.21betaXXX.tgz
>
> The printcap entry will look like:
>
> test
> :sd=/var/spool/lprng/queues/%P
> :pl#60:mx#0
> :af=acct:lf=log:ps=status
> :bp=/usr/local/lib/filters/psbanner
> :ab
> :rw:lp=some_host%9100
> :ifhp=model=hp8100,pjl_job@,of_options=pjl_job
> :filter=/usr/local/lib/filters/ifhp -Tmodel=hp8100,pjl_job@
> :of=/usr/local/lib/filters/ifhp -Tmodel=hp8100
>
> The pjl_job@ says not to use the PJL JOB/EOJ facility. This will now
> set up a single job.
>
> Good luck.
>
> Patrick Powell
>
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