[cups.general] Display username on printer lcd panel

[Lars Anderson]

On Wed, Jun 29, 2005 at 09:51:35, Michael Sweet wrote:

> Lars Anderson wrote:
> >...
> >Ahh yes, I see it now :-) Tried it on an old Laserjet 4000 and it works 
> >perfectly.
> >The first printers I tested it with was a Laserjet 4350 and a 
> >ColorLaserjet 5550. Here the info is on the display for a second or 2 
> >(depending on the size of the job) and the rest of the time the display 
> >prints "PROCESSING JOB FROM TRAY 3" or something similar. 
> 
> Gotta love HP and their "standards"... :)

Indeed :)

> 
> >I still wonder why most of the PPD's for the HP printers has an empty 
> >JCLBegin string?
> 
> Did you get the PPD from hp.com or ???
> 
I think most of them came from HP, either via the CDROM that came with 
the printer or via hp.com. But JCLBegin is also empty on a lot of the HP 
PPDs from cups.org, eg. the HP Color Laserjet 5500 and HP Color 
Laserjet 4600.

Here's what I have:

lsa at codfish:/usr/share/cups/model> grep JCLBegin *.PPD
HP2500_6.PPD:*JCLBegin: "<1B>%-12345X at PJL JOB<0A>"
HP4200_7.PPD:*JCLBegin:           ""
HP4M6_V1.PPD:*JCLBegin: "@PJL SET RESOLUTION=600<0A>"
HP5500_7.PPD:*JCLBegin: ""
HPB41007.PPD:*JCLBegin:           ""
HPB45507.PPD:*JCLBegin: ""
HPB46007.PPD:*JCLBegin: ""
HPC2550S.PPD:*JCLBegin:           ""
HPC2840S.PPD:*JCLBegin:           ""
HPC4250S.PPD:*JCLBegin:           ""
HPC4350S.PPD:*JCLBegin:           ""
HPC5550S.PPD:*JCLBegin: ""
HPLJ5M_4.PPD:*JCLBegin: ""


> >>I have considered changing to using RDYMSG and then adding another
> >>RDYMSG for the end-of-job code, however that could still leave the
> >>last message displayed if there is a problem with the job...
> >
> >
> >For some uses it would be nice to have a message stating "Job finished 
> >for user blabla" or something like that staying on the display after 
> >the job is finished. 
> 
> That actually sounds nice - can you file a RFE at:
> 
>     http://www.cups.org/str.php
> 
> Please also propose the wording/text that would appear...
> 
Cool, I'll do that.

Lars