At 6:16 PM -0400 6/28/01, josh@ssimr.com wrote:
>I am quite mystified by a problem with my /etc/printcap. I'm using a
>laserjet4mp at the moment. It is a PostScript printer. Whenever I
>print anything it prints a burst page with user,host,class, and job. I
>thought that the line in /etc/printcap containing ":sh:\" was supposed
>to "suppress header". It has in every other system I've dealt with.

It's a problem specific to HP JetDirect interfaces.  Telnet to the 
printer and set banner 0 (or something like that).  The JetDirect 
interface ignores the :sh: directive.

Bad printer!  Bad!  No cookie!


Cross my heart, strike me dead, stick a lobster on my head.
John Crichton -- Farscape, 6/15/01
h.b.hotz@jpl.nasa.gov, or hbhotz@oxy.edu