Can I disable the header page with my username on it?
It is possible to disable the printing of a header page, however,
please read this document first before deciding what to do:
The risk of losing a page out of your print job, or your whole print job,
increases a lot when there's no header page on it. This is not a software
problem, but a problem with other people accidentally walking off with part
of your printout because it's just behind their own and they didn't notice
that theirs ended. Or perhaps someone might throw it into the recycling bin
because they were cleaning around the printer, and didn't know that YOUR
printout wasn't an ancient one. The header page separates print jobs and
lets people know where their printout ends and yours begins.
If you still want to economize on cover sheets, here's a few hints:
- The header pages are designed to be useful - they are graph paper,
polar graph paper, log paper, music staffs, or blank. See our stock
answer on selecting a specific header page, and configure your account
to always print that header page. That way you don't need to go
purchase a music staff notebook or graph paper.
- If you have several different files you want to print, you can print them
all at the same time, with a single cover sheet, this way:
lpr -Pprinter file1 file2 file3 ...
- If you are in a quiet cluster, or are willing to wait by the printer to watch
your printout come out, you can omit the header page with the -h flag to lpr:
lpr -Pprinter -h filename
Please be careful with the -h flag! Lack of a cover page really does make
it easy to lose your printouts after they come out of the printer!
- If you will be printing directly from an application, and have no
chance to specify the "-h" flag in the printing command,
then type the following command at the athena% prompt BEFORE you start
the application from which you will be printing:
setenv LPROPT -h
That will set a default behaviour for the printing command, and tell it
to suppress the header page.
If you want to have it ALWAYS by DEFAULT, you can insert the "setenv"
line in your ~/.environment file. We suggest you don't do this -- it
is very easy to lose your printouts, as explained at the beginning of
this message.
- The "-h" flag is a toggle, meaning that the behaviour of
lpr -h -h
is the same as that of
lpr
If you have the LPROPT set as above, but want a cover page at some
particular time, you can do so by including the "-h" option to the
"lpr" command.
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