Page label overlaps output

[Nathan Paul]

> On Jul 15, 2009, at 11:07 AM, Nathan Paul wrote:
> >> I'm using the page-label option to generate a customized header/
> >> footer on my documents. The header and footer sometimes overlap the
> >> printed output. Is there any solution to this? The alternate pstops
> >> filter will not work, since we have requirements to support PS1.
> >
> > I should also mention that although a banner page would be an
> > acceptable alternative, we need to print information in the label/
> > banner that is acquired elsewhere in the system and is subject to
> > change. Restarting the scheduler is not an option, so I think banner
> > pages are not an option.
>
>
> Keep in mind that banner pages can be any format, so you can actually
> run a filter that converts the banner page to a different format (e.g.
> PostScript) for printing, injecting data as needed.
>
> That's actually how the CUPS 1.4 banners and test page are implemented
> now, allowing us to localize them more easily.
>
> ___________________________________________________
> Michael Sweet, Senior Printing System Engineer
>
>
>

The label does indeed white out the content so the label is visible, but our customer has told us they don't want the overlapping. I'm fairly sure I can convince them to use a banner page instead. How might I go about running a filter on just the banner page?