I'm printing to network attached laser printers, mostly HP PCL-based
devices. They are network attached using Extended Systems Pocket Pro print
servers. These devices support LPD and raw 9100, and only operate reliably
when they are printed to via a single queue. These queues will be fed via
samba.
I want to have two different "virtual" queues to print to a single physical
printer, one always generating banner pages and the other without banners.
Since I can only hit my printers from a single queue, I want to have
multiple queues that all forward their output to one "master" queue.
In my testing, banner generation seems to be happening only at the "master"
level and not at the "virtual" level.
To test this I am using the following printcap:
aaa:\
:ab:\
:mx=0:\
:sd=/var/spool/lpd/aaa:\
:rm=dtprintserv.dtc.corp:\
:rp=bbb:\
:bp=/usr/libexec/filters/pclbanner:\
:if=/usr/share/printconf/util/mf_wrapper:\
:lpd_bounce=true:\
:done_jobs=0:
bbb:\
# :ab:\
:mx=0:\
:sd=/var/spool/lpd/bbb:\
:rm=ax2wtechh4.dtc.corp:\
:rp=pr1:\
:lpd_bounce=true:\
:if=/usr/share/printconf/util/mf_wrapper:\
# :bp=/usr/libexec/filters/pclbanner:\
:done_jobs=0:
Any ideas how I can get banner generation to occur at the higher levels
and/or a better way of building this hierarchy?
Thanks,
Ryan Carter
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