[cups.general] Display username on printer lcd panel

[Helge Blischke]

Lars Anderson wrote:
> 
> On Fri, Jun 24, 2005 at 08:37:53, Helge Blischke wrote:
> 
> Hi,
> 
> >
> > The pstops filter emits a JCL statement like
> >       @PJL JOBNAME = ... DISPLAY = id user title
> > where id is the job-ID, user the job-originating-user-name and title the job-name.
> 
> First, as far as I can tell the code for this in emit.c is only executed
> if the JCLBegin line in the PPD for the printer contains \033%-12345X@
> Second, most of the PPD's for my HP printers have nothing in this line.
> Putting it in has no effect, my HP printers ignore the JOB DISPLAY
> command.
> 
> > If that isn't sufficient, you'd hack the sources (cups/emit.c in the source tree)
> > or file a RFE (request for enhancements) hoping that your request finds the way
> > into CUPS 1.2
> 
> Hacking emit.c to put in the RDYMSG DISPLAY command works, but is
> kinda ugly since it just replaces the normal READY message and
> therefore stays on the display until the next job.
> 
> Does anyone have the normal JOB DISPLAY command working on a HP printer?
> 
> Lars

Yes, it works on all but the oldest (LJ 4 and earlier) printers.

Helge

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