Richard Skelton (Richard.Skelton@brake.demon.co.uk) was the only one to
respond to my query.
He suggested using the 'lp' command with options:
lp -d hp_printer -o btray2 <file>
The 'btray2' option says print the banner from tray 2. In our case, tray 2
has colored paper. This works fine for programs where you can control the
print command, but not for programs which spool directly to the print device.
With his help I was also able to locate the model file for the printer and
change the banner page tray on a global basis. On my system, the file was
found in:
/etc/lp/interfaces/model.orig/hp4si
where 'hp4si' is the name of my printer queue. In this file, I changed the
definition of 'bannerpagesrc' from 'def' to '4' which selects tray 2 as the
default banner tray.
Again, thanks to Richard for his leads.
- Jim
-- Jim Reisert <jjr@databook.com> SMC Massachusetts, Danvers, MA http://www.tiac.net/users/ad1c/ http://www.smc.com/
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