Details

Banner printers have one or more entries in the UNIX printer capabilities file ('/etc/printcap'). The correct printer queue name will already be specified for reports generated within Banner using the Banner Printer Codes.

However, for those users that print report files from within the UA Menu or at a UNIX shell prompt, it's necessary to know the correct printer queue name to use for the '-P name' parameter of the UNIX 'lpr' command.

Different printer queue names usually indicate different processing of the file being printed. It is important that the correct printer queue name be used. Some common naming conventions used on Glacier are listed here.

Suffix Characters

t

Text line endings translated from linefeed (LF = UNIX newline) to carriage-return and linefeed (CRLF = DOS newline). This is a common default for UNIX ASCII text files. Output will print using the default settings of the printer. Unless you have a very dumb (dot-matrix) printer, this printer queue choice is rarely used.

n

No translation. Data is passed unfiltered to printer engine. Commonly used for PostScript^TM or HP PCL^TM files.

Updated 01-21-2004