Original Question:
> We have a QMS1660 printer that's on our IP network. A SunOs machine
> acts as the server. The printer has two trays. Normal printing (to the
> default tray (8.5" x 11") works fine. The non-default tray
> holds larger paper (11" x 17"). At one time, people claim they were
> able to print from the larger tray from Unix but no longer can. Yet
> some people can print from within various applications that specify
> paper size (StarOffice(?)) So the tray/que does work, just
> not from the
> shell. I tried using admintool to add it, readd it, specify its IP
> address as the server, lp -o length=17 and a few other ideas, all to
> no avail. BTW, the last idea returned a warning thet the
> printer isn't
> configured to handle all lp options. Any ideas?
Thanks to:
robsonk@ebrd.com
andrew.merkert@tycoelectronics.com
djohnson@nbserv1.rsc.raytheon.com
bismark@alta.Jpl.Nasa.Gov
eddy@iescrow.com
The most useful information included:
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From: "Merkert, Andrew P" <andrew.merkert@tycoelectronics.com>
The following postscript code can be inserted into the plot file
so that the 11x17 paper tray is used:
%%IncludeFeature: input (11x17)
This code should be inserted before the statement:
%%EndComments
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From: Danny Johnson <djohnson@nbserv1.rsc.raytheon.com>
...by using a paper size
name inside the parens instead of a tray number. B-size paper
is known to QMS as "Ledger", so to select B-size paper no
matter which tray you would use
#!/bin/sh -
for file
do
(
echo "%!"
echo "%%IncludeFeature: input (Ledger)"
echo "%%EndComments"
cat "$file"
) | lp -d realprintername
done
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From: Eddy Fafard <eddy@iescrow.com>
Enscript has the option where you can specify tray number otherwise I had
to pass a potscript snippit first to make it work. Here is a web site
that explains it.
http://www.tektronix.xerox.com/support/HAL/PDF/9523.html
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So when I get a chance, I'll roll the above script into a print filter
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