System Administration Guide: Advanced Administration

How to Turn Off Banner Pages

  1. Log in as superuser, lp, or assume an equivalent role on the print server.

  2. Turn off banner printing.


    lpadmin -p printer-name -o banner=never
    

    -p printer-name

    Name of the printer for which you are making banner pages optional. 

    -o banner=never

    Disables banner page printing under all circumstances. 

    The banner page setting is entered in the print server's /etc/lp/printers/printer-name/configuration file.

  3. Verify that the output from the following command contains the line Banner not printed.


    $ lpstat -p printer-name -l
    
  4. Submit a print request to the printer to make sure a banner page does not print.

Example—Turning Off Printing Banner Pages

The following example shows how to disable printing banner pages on the printer luna.


# lpadmin -p luna -o banner=never