[2347] in Enterprise Print Delivery Team
Banner Pages
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Rocklyn E. Clarke)
Thu Feb 28 19:08:21 2002
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From: "Rocklyn E. Clarke" <rclarke@MIT.EDU>
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Hi Team,
I have the banner program working reasonably well on Pillage, but
there are some restrictions in using it that we should discuss on
Monday:
1. Standard printcap entries cannot pass a banner from LPRng into IPM.
This means that a postscript printer directly attached to IPM (as is
currently the case with ep1) cannot receive banners generated by
LPRng. If we go back to the old method of attaching the postscript
printers, then we can have an entry named ep1-direct which can
generate the banner and pass it to the printer.
The only way around this is to move the banner code into the filter
code and somehow merge a banner with the incoming spool file. It's
probably doable, but I'm not sure that this is a good way to do
things.
2. The print job and host information get lost when passing through IPM
This means that they don't make it onto the banner page. This is
probably something we can live with, but we should discuss it anyway.
Rocklyn
