A banner page is a sheet of paper printed after a print project to identify the print activity for a user and keep printing activities organized. It can be generated by the printer, spooler, or print server and displays information such as the user’s name, date and time, and file name. It can be wasteful in single user setups but useful in multiple user setups.
A banner page is a sheet of paper typically printed by a computer printer after the rest of a print project. This sheet is often used to identify the rest of the underlying pages as printing activity for a particular user, as well as providing other information to help keep different printing activities separate and organized. These pages can be created by the printer itself or generated by a spooler or print server, depending on the various software and hardware used with a printer. A banner page is usually unnecessary when only a single computer is using a printer, but setups with multiple computers can take advantage of these pages.
Also called a burst page or spreadsheet, a banner page is usually the last page printed as part of a specific printing task so that it sits on top of other printed pages. It won’t actually be part of the task itself, meaning no user will actually make the effort to generate the page; is created by the printer or other software. The information displayed on this type of page may vary depending on how the printer or printing software is set up. Information typically displayed on a banner page includes the name or username of the person who submitted the print job, the date and time it was printed or sent, and the name of the file that was printed.
A banner page can be generated by hardware or software that is part of a print setup. This page is often created by the printer connected to many computers, although a print server can also generate banner pages; the options for making changes to these pages are usually accessed through the printer or server firmware. A software print spooler installed on a computer or network can also generate the banner page, which can be easier to edit than a page created by a printer or server.
In some settings, a banner page can ultimately be wasteful. If only one or a few users are connected to a single printer, it is often easy for users to manage their print jobs and retrieve them quickly. When a single printer is used by more than a dozen users, however, it can often increase productivity to have a banner page that makes it easier to identify print jobs. Businesses can also reduce time spent with technical support or reprinting due to lost print jobs through the use of such pages.
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