Re: Remote printing to JetDirect: unwanted banners

["Rick L. Mantooth" <ricklman swbell net>]

Nick,
You should be able to telnet to the printers IP address and
turn off the banner page via the commandline.
  
(rickdman)@rickdman# telnet lp5si
Trying xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx...
Connected to lp5si.
Escape character is '^]'.
?                                 <---- Type a "?" mark.
  
===JetDirect Telnet Configuration===
<clip>
        Banner page: enabled
  
        To Change/Configure Parameters Enter:
        Parameter-name: value <Carriage Return>
        Parameter-name  Type of value
        ip:             IP-address in dotted notation
        subnet-mask:    address in dotted notation
        default-gw:     address in dotted notation
        syslog-svr:     address in dotted notation
        idle-timeout:   seconds in integers
        banner: 0 to disable, 1 to enable
        type passwd to change passwd
  
 Type "?" for HELP Or "quit" to save-and-exit
 Or type "exit" to exit without saving configuration parameter entries
> Connection closed by foreign host.
</clip>
  
Have fun,
--
Rick L. Mantooth
ricklman swbell net
Lottery: A tax on people who are bad at math.

On Thu, 30 Sep 1999, Nick Urbanik wrote:

> Dear folks,
> 
> We have two HP printers with JetDirect boxes.  When I print to them
> using TCP/IP, an extra page appears after the print job that contains
> the following four lines of text in 12pt Courier font:
> User: nicku
> Host: nickpc.tyee.vtc.edu.hk
> Class: nickpc.tyee.vtc.edu.hk
> Job: stdin
> 
> The sh entry is present in the printcap entries; here is one of them:
> ##PRINTTOOL3## REMOTE
> ljpq1:\
>  :sd=/var/spool/lpd/ljpq1:\
>  :mx#0:\
>  :lp=/dev/null:\
>  :sh:\
>  :rm=202.40.215.169:\
>  :rp=raw:
> 
> Any idea on how to stop this terrible waste of trees?
> 
> --
> Nick Urbanik, Dept. of Electrical & Communications Engineering
> Hong Kong Institute of Vocational Education (Tsing Yi)
> email: nicku vtc edu hk, nicku iohk com
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> 
> 
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