> From [EMAIL PROTECTED] Fri Nov 2 13:21:25 2001 > Subject: LPRng: Multiple copies > From: Jim Easton <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Date: Fri, 2 Nov 2001 13:10:19 -0700 (MST) > CC: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > christoph beyer wrote: > > but I actually mean something different: after a while the default > > number of copies entry in the internal printer menu is set to e.g. 13 > > copies, which automatically results in 13 copies of every job you send. > > This is probably done by some pjl string but I don't know which one and > > where it comes from.... > > I can suggest where it might be coming from: > > The number of copies can be set by the postscript file. Likely > a user has asked for 13 copies. Naturally the postscript > doesn't set it back and that leaves the printer with /NumCopies > set. > > If LPRng doesn't have a option with which you can force, or at > least default, the number of copies to 1 you could send it the > following postscript file. > > %! > << /NumCopies 1 >> setpagedevice > > As an interesting note: years ago our administrator decreed that > multiple copies were not allowed because photocopying was cheaper. > (In fact it was - by quite a bit) Since this didn't cut no ice > with the users I ended up putting a catch in the filter which > forbad the setting of /NumCopies - complaints predictable. > > This did not however prevent some enterprising sole (sic.) from > setting the console to multiple copies. Of course he didn't > set it back - they never do - and after that we got several > copies of every job. :-( So I added a default of one. That > worked just fine until one day people were telling me that > one of our printers was printing two copies of the banner - > I had forgotten to default the banner too - sigh. > > Jim >
You can add this to the ifhp.conf file, in the 'ps_init' section. By the way, are the multiple copies being done for PCL as well as PostScript? Patrick ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- YOU MUST BE A LIST MEMBER IN ORDER TO POST TO THE LPRNG MAILING LIST The address you post from MUST be your subscription address If you need help, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] (or lprng-requests or lprng-digest-requests) with the word 'help' in the body. For the impatient, to subscribe to a list with name LIST, send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with: | example: subscribe LIST <mailaddr> | subscribe lprng-digest [EMAIL PROTECTED] unsubscribe LIST <mailaddr> | unsubscribe lprng [EMAIL PROTECTED] If you have major problems, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the word LPRNGLIST in the SUBJECT line. -----------------------------------------------------------------------------
