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Cover sheets on IBM printers
The company I worked for previously had it set up so that anytime
anybody sent a print job to ond of the network printers the printer would first print a cover sheet so people's print outs wouldn't get mixed up. Unfortunately the company I'm at now does not do this... Does anyone know how to accomplish this? |
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Cover sheets on IBM printers
There are a number of ways to generate either header pages or separator
pages. If the networked printer is being driven by a print server, then the print server setup can be configured to generate a header page, detailing who sent it, when it was sent, and from where. This is a feature of the print server. Alternatively, the print driver could be configured to generate a separator page (see next). For workstation connected printers (shared printers), or a networked printer, the printer driver may have an advanced setting that can generate separator sheets between print jobs. This is a function of the driver. For example, on my IP5000, the driver has an option to generate a pre-defined separator page under Advanced Settings. Another way, is if another host system (e.g. an IBM mainframe) is generating print jobs to a networked printer. The IBM host system can be configured to generating header and/or trailer pages for each print job, indicating the job name, job number, date/time, and printer destination, acting almost like the print server described initially. On an IBM host, the JES (Job Entry Subsystem) performs this function through optionally invoked exits. Finally, a custom driver could have been written, which inserts header pages with customised information. There are a number of ways to do this. To nail it down, perhaps you could provide information on both the former and current environments including - network server OS (if any, e.g. Windows 2003 Advanced Server, IBM z/OS, etc.) - workstation OS (e.g. Windows XP Professional0 - type of network (e.g. peer-to-peer, domain, host-based) - printer model - host system generating the print - printer language of the print job being used (e.g. PCL, PostScript, IPDS, SCS, etc.) Bullitt wrote: The company I worked for previously had it set up so that anytime anybody sent a print job to ond of the network printers the printer would first print a cover sheet so people's print outs wouldn't get mixed up. Unfortunately the company I'm at now does not do this... Does anyone know how to accomplish this? |
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