34T7YGG@CMUVM.BITNET (Todd Swan aka The Analog Kid) (03/23/91)
Is there any way to get the Next Laser Printer to print a banner. I
tried adding of=/usr/lib/transcript/psof because this works on the
PostScript printers on the Suns we have here but it doesn't work. The
file /usr/lib/transcript/psof does exist. If anyone has a solution I
would appreciate the help.
Todd
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================================================================frank@urz.unibas.ch (03/25/91)
In article <91081.12525734T7YGG@CMUVM.BITNET>, 34T7YGG@CMUVM.BITNET (Todd Swan aka The Analog Kid) writes: > Is there any way to get the Next Laser Printer to print a banner. I > tried adding of=/usr/lib/transcript/psof because this works on the > PostScript printers on the Suns we have here but it doesn't work. The > file /usr/lib/transcript/psof does exist. If anyone has a solution I > would appreciate the help. > It's a hack, but it should work (I do something similarily to automatically turn off my laser printer after printing): Instead of using the output filter, use the input filter: The printer spooler calls the inputfilter /usr/lib/NextPrinter/npcomm. You can either move it to /usr/lib/NextPrinter/npcomm.prg (or similar) and create a shell script with the name /usr/lib/NextPrinter/npcomm OR change the entry in NetInfo printers Local_printer if ... . In the shell script, pass all input from standard in to the actual filter program and then pipe your bannerpage to the same program. Of course, you need some program (or shell script) to generate a banner page.) example file: #!/bin/sh cat - | /usr/lib/NextPrinter/npcomm.prg $* mkbanner | /usr/lib/NextPrinter/npcomm.prg There are probably better ways, I just don't know of them... -Robert Robert Frank, Inistitut fuer Informatik, University of Basel, Switzerland