CUPS Banner Page Prints as Text, not a Banner

Issue

• I tried using the following article to create a customized CUPS banner page: How can I create my own custom banner page when using CUPS in RHEL 6?. Unfortunately, when I select my custom CUPS banner page, the job never prints and OS reports the job was aborted. The banner file I created is:

  #CUPS-BANNER
  
  Show job-id
  

  What prints is the actual text #CUPS-BANNER and Show job-id and not the actual Job ID.

• When a banner page is selected and set as part of the print jobs, the actual named variables in the banner configuration file (/usr/share/cups/banners/standard) are printed as the banner output. That is, the literal configuration file itself is printed, and not as a separate page to the print job, but as a header.

• All our printers are confgured as raw printers. When we try to print a CUPS test page, the following is printed on the printer:

  #PDF-BANNER
  Template default-testpage.pdf
  Show printer-name printer-info printer-location printer-make-and-model printer-driver-name printer-driver-version paper-size imageable-area job-id options time-at-creation time-at-processing