Win2K and Banner or Separator Pages 3

[CWBarton]

How do you prevent the Separator Page from printing?

Win2K Pro workstation printing to mostly HP printers in a hybrid Novell & WinNT40 environment.

I've tried NOT selecting a separator page. Selecting one of the default separator pages, creating my own separator page (but not knowing what codes would indicate not sending a page), searching the help files, the MS Knowledge base and this web site.

Surely we're not the only company that does not want to print a separator page!

 

[DEDMOD]

Generally things like a separater page are controlled by the printer driver. Try checking under Start / Settings / Printers, right click the printer you're using and select properties. For my Xerox Document Centre 255 driver there's an advanced tab with separator page being a button which lets you select one. Unfortunately I haven't set actually got a printer installed on this computer so I don't know if the fact that there's no separator page selected means none is printed. But my other computer which has Win 98 has the same general setup with a driver for the Xerox Document Center 250 I'm using. Here on the general page there's a pulldown for separator page and 'none' is selected. I suspect you can find something similar for your printer.

Dave Dardinger

 

[CWBarton]

As you said " . . . there's an advanced tab with separator page being a button which lets you select one." I've been there, left it blank, selected a default, tried to create my own, (there was little documentation on creating one). Thanks for the thought.

I'm still looking.

Definition of a good technician. One who has something else to try if this doesn't fix it.

 

[DEDMOD]

How about trying to find a different print driver which will let you select 'none' for seperator page and see what happens?

For that matter, how about seeing if there's a setting on the printer itself which can be set to supress seperator pages?

Dave Dardinger

 

[dball63]

We also are a Novell/NT 4 shop and use Netware NDPS to print from our Win 2000 machines. I have not had issues with Sep pages at all. I'm not sure why you would be having trouble and we wouldn't but if I were you, I would be sure that you have the latest drivers from

http://www.hp.com

Dball63

 

[Guest_imported]

Hi,

I was wondering if you ever found out the solution for this issue. I have been experiencing the same problem with Windows 2000 workstations. Our network here is NT and Novell 3.12. I have also tried the same things with no luck. Any info. would be greatly appreciated. Thanks.

 

[SeanGriffin]

Under the Control Panel there is CSNW this is the control for Novell in there there is the option to print the baner make sure this option isn't selected.

-Sean

 

[CWBarton]

A bloomin' genius - Thanks Sean, now I can sleep at night knowing the "tree-huggers of the world" will not be plotting and boy-cotting our company.