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From: Jonathan H N Chin <jc254@newton.cam.ac.uk>
Date: Fri, 7 Feb 2003 15:22:32 GMT
Subject: PPR: tray selection
I am trying to set up an HP Color LaserJet 5500 with three trays (2,3,4)
and manual feed (tray 1, unused).
I wish to have trays 2 and 3 contain A4 plain paper.
Tray 4 will contain A4 transparencies.
I want three print queues, to be accessed by lpr:
single-sided (either tray 2 or 3)
duplex (either tray 2 or 3)
transparency (tray 4)
I want the printer to print without requiring manual intervention
regardless of any media type/size requirements specified in the job.
In particular, if a job wants letter size, it should print anyway.
If Tray2 runs out of paper, jobs should print on Tray3 (and vice-versa).
I can't work out how to configure ppr to let me do that.
If I use AutoSelect (ppop mount AutoSelect; with no other trays
available) and use a switchset with '-F "*InputSlot TrayX"', empty
trays may cause jobs to print on an inappropriate tray (eg. transparency
jobs print on Tray2 if Tray4 is empty).
If I don't use AutoSelect (ie. ppop mount TrayX a4; no AutoSelect tray),
then jobs always stick in the queue, reporting "waiting for media: letter".
I've tried setting InputSlot, PageSize, DefaultPageSize, and MediaType
in various combinations to no avail.
Am I missing something obvious?
- -jonathan
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