Classification not printing

Helge Blischke h.blischke at acm.org
Tue Jan 10 14:03:11 PST 2012


Jon wrote:

>> Jon wrote:
>>
>> >> Jon wrote:
>> >>
>> >> >> Jon wrote:
>> >> >>
>> >> >> > We have cups 1.1 installed on Solaris 8.
>> >> >> >
>> >> >> > Our system is required to print the classification at the top and
>> >> >> > bottom
>> >> >> > of every page.  I seem to remember it used to do that, but now it
>> >> >> > doesn't and as the new Sys Admin in the shop I have been tasked
>> >> >> > with fixing this issue.
>> >> >> >
>> >> >> > As far as I can tell all you need to do is set the Classification
>> >> >> > variable in the cupsd.conf file.
>> >> >> >
>> >> >> > I did that, with override turned off.  The appropriate banner
>> >> >> > page prints out every time but the classification is not added to
>> >> >> > the top and bottom of every page.
>> >> >> >
>> >> >> > Even though override is off I still made sure lpoptions
>> >> >> > job-sheets was set to the appropriate classification level, still
>> >> >> > nothing.
>> >> >> >
>> >> >> > Is there anything else I am overlooking here?
>> >> >>
>> >> >> Look at the page-label job option (e.g. -o page-label=secret will
>> >> >> put the word secret on the top and bottom of each page).
>> >> >>
>> >> >> Helge
>> >> >>
>> >> >
>> >> > The page-label option did not appear to do anything.
>> >>
>> >> This option has been introduced in CUPS 1.1.7.
>> >>
>> >> Helge
>> >>
>> >
>> > cups-config --version says we have 1.1.14 on the print server, and
>> > 1.1.18 on the clients.
>>
>> Then it *should* work. For further investigation, on the print server,
>> edit the cupsd.conf and set
>> LogLevel debug
>> instead of the default info, restart cups, print a text job, revert to
>> the default log level, restart cups again, and post the portion of
>> /var/log/cups/error_log that contains the messages of the test job.
>>
>> Helge
>>
> 
> I already have a couple of print jobs logged with debugging, but posting
> those logs online is very difficult. Is there something in particular that
> I should be looking for in those logs?

Perhaps you could send me the log(s) via e-mail?

Helge





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