Printing Banner Pages
A banner page identifies who submitted the print request, the print request ID, and when the request was printed. A banner page will also have a modifiable title to help users identify their printouts.
Banner pages make identifying the owner of a print job easy, which is especially helpful when many users submit jobs to the same printer. Printing banner pages uses more paper, however, and might not be necessary if a printer has only a few users. In some cases, printing banner pages is undesirable. For example, if a printer has special paper or forms mounted, like paycheck forms, printing banner pages might cause problems.
By default, the print service forces banner pages to be printed. However, you can give users a choice to turn off printing of a banner page when they submit a print request. You can set this choice through the lpadmin command or through Solaris Print Manager. If you give the users a choice, they have to use the -o banner option to turn off banner page printing.
Also, you can turn off banner pages for a printer so they are never printed. This is important if you have a situation where you don't need or want banner pages. You can turn off banner page printing by using the lpadmin command.
Table 5–2 Banner Page Printing|
Command Used |
Banner Page Printing |
Override? |
|---|---|---|
|
lpadmin -p printer -o banner or lpadmin -p printer -o banner=always |
Required and printed |
If you are a regular user and use p -o nobanner, the request is printed, but the nobanner argument is ignored. If you are root or another privileged user, the nobanner argument is honored. |
|
lpadmin -p printer -o nobanner lpadmin -p printer -o banner=optional |
On by default, but can be disabled on a per request basis with the lp -o nobanner command. |
N/A |
|
lpadmin -p printer -o banner=never |
Disabled |
No |
For step-by-step command-line instructions, see How to Turn Off Banner Pages.
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