page-label

[Helge Blischke]

Anonymous wrote:
> 
> Thanks,...is it possible to implement a page-label at the server end of things so that all documents printed get a header? I'm using Mac OS X, so each machine is running it's own server, and would like to add headers to all jobs to identify which computer printed the document.
> 
> Jeff

It is always the server end where the page-label is handled. In case you are going to use
the alternate pstops filter, you'd have to implement it on all your Mac OS X machines,
of course.

Helge

> 
> > Jeff wrote:
> > >
> > > I see a number of references to "page-label" for adding a static header to every page printed,...how exactly would one implement the page-label option? When I looked it up in the documentation, it simply explained what it was, but I didn't see anything on how to do it,...
> > >
> > > Thanks
> > > Jeff
> >
> > page-label is a job attribute:
> >       -o page-label="some weird text"
> > on the command line. The default implementation simply renders this "sime weird text"
> > (without the quotes) surrounded by a rectangular box at both tht top and the bottom of
> > each page.
> >
> > There is an alternate implementation - see the link to "alternate pstops filter" on the
> > CUPS homepage - which requires some skills in PostScript programming but allows to
> > do things like watermarks, thumb tabs, etc.
> >
> > Helge
> >
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> > Helge Blischke
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> > SRZ Berlin | Firmengruppe besscom
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