Dirk De Pauw wrote:
>
> Jim Easton wrote:
>
> > Dirk De Pauw wrote: (private mail)
> > > > When you turn the printer on send it the following job;
> > > >
> > > > %!
> > > > serverdict begin 0 exitserver
> > > > << /Policies << /PageSize 3 >> >> setpagedevice
> > >
> > > When I lpr this to the printer, nothing happens: it keeps operating like it
> > > did before. Same thing goes for the commands at the bottom of the mail you
> > > sent me (it doesn't give any output in the status or status.lp file). Am I
> > > doing something wrong (I'm not a sysadmin guru).
> >
> > Oh hell. That probably means that something is resetting it for
> > every job (most likely the job itself) I very much doubt if it's
> > being blocked by the queue filter but I really can't tell because
> > we don't actually run LPRng.
> >
> > Dirk De Pauw wrote further:
> > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> > > > > We had more or less the same problem and we solve it just
> > > > adding
> > > > > as a default Z a4 in the printcap printer entry:
> > > > > ifhp=a4
> > > >
> > > > Much thanks, it solved our problem.
> > >
> > > Actually it only solved the problem when someone selects letter for a printjob
> > > if the document defaults are set to A4 (for example in MS-Word).
> >
> > Now that's your problem (viz. MS-Word) :-)
> >
> > Seriously; isn't that what you needed? I guess I'm confused - Color
> > me stupid - I don't think I understand what the problem is anymore.
> >
>
> First of all. Let me restate our problem. I just want to avoid that a "stupid" user
> creates some letter printjob which will jam our printer (then he has to press the
> continue button for every page).
If you want to take a draconian view then
Check
> 7.9 File Transfer and Error Status Monitoring......
of the howto, you can run a script when the LC_LOAD LETTER error comes
up, do whatever and then have the job deleted off the queue, if you're
running samba on the print server you can send a winpopup message to the
offender calling him nasty names :)
We went with this option because of the complaints we were getting that
the printers "were not printing stuff out right" if we set our 4000's
just to go ahead and print.
NB Patrick apologies for not thanking you about confirming this before,
I'd missed your e-mail.
--
Iain Rae
Computing Officer
Dept. Civil & Offshore Engineering
Heriot-Watt University
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