From: Webb, Eric (EWEBB@COOPERLIGHTING.COM)
Date: Fri Apr 11 2003 - 10:11:47 EDT
I believe there are places in smit (Print Queue Characteristics and/or the
Printer Attribute Database) to force output to a different tray or paper
size, but in our case we had an application that was not specifying the page
size in its postscript output. Because of this, and because we wanted one
print queue to do both "A"- and "B"-sized prints, we used a shell script and
a small amount of logic to add one of these two postscript clauses to the
top of the .PS output file:
A-sized:
<</DeferredMediaSelection true /PageSize [612 792] >> setpagedevice
<</DeferredMediaSelection true /PageSize [792 1224] >> setpagedevice
B-sized:
<</DeferredMediaSelection true /MediaPosition 0 >> setpagedevice
<</DeferredMediaSelection true /MediaPosition 1 >> setpagedevice
Eric
-----Original Message-----
From: Bruce Whittaker [mailto:bwhittak@ENERGY.COM.AU]
Sent: Thursday, April 10, 2003 11:28 PM
To: aix-l@Princeton.EDU
Subject: How Do I Print to a second tray
Hi all,
I've got a curious issue which may be a little off track (apologies). I have
a PCL printer (HP 5si) to which I'm trying to print a converted postscript
file - but I want it to go to tray 3. Text prints to the second tray fine
but not converted postscript.
My setup is as follows,
1. My Test Postcript file.
---------------------------------
%!PS-Adobe-3.0
statusdict begin
2 setpapertray
end clippath stroke showpage
-----------------------------------
2. Convert a postscript file to PCL format using ghostscript.
/usr/local/bin/gs -q -dNOPAUSE -sPAPERSIZE=a4 -sDEVICE=ljet3
-sOutputFile=MY_PCL_FILE < POSTSCRIPT.ps
3. Print the postscript file to tray 3.
/usr/bin/qprt -u2 -PMY_PRINTER MY_PCL_FILE
If I issue the qprt com on a text file, the printer selects the correct
paper tray. If however I use ghostscript to convert a postscript file it
ends up on the default tray (tray 2).
I've tried changing the tray number in the postscript file between 0 and 3
to no avail.
I've tried setting up a printer queue which has the default tray set to tray
3. It again works for text only.
Any ideas ?
Bruce Whittaker,
CASS Support,
Extension 34193
External (02) 9269 4193.
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