Printing from SCO OpenServer to CUPS on Debian

Ah the joys of the hideous SCO OpenServer!

So here's the plan - print jobs from a SCO OpenServer machine printing via CUPS queues so that everything's in one place. Jobs are sent by lpd from one machine to the other with the cups lpd daemon receiving the jobs and putting them in the queues for formatting as appropriate.

Now SCO's printing system is trying to be clever and do all sorts of driver things and that somehow is getting passed through as the banner page option or something like that. Either way the error:

Unable to create job - Bad job-sheets value "standard"!

Was coming up in /var/log/syslog on the debian box.

The solution - get the SCO box to include "-o nobanner" in its lp command e.g.

lp -o nobanner -p printer file

Then it all passes through properly.