Duplex printing

From: Elise Marie Meyer <emm_at_heron.physics.ucsb.edu>
Date: Thu, 15 Feb 96 11:10:28 -0800

Dear OSF Managers,

We would like to print in duplex mode on an HPLJ4M+ from a multivendor
unix environment including Digital Unix (OSF/1).

We are currently able to select the envelope feeder on a non-networked
HPLJ4 by a adding "2 setpapertray" after the "statusdict begin" statement
that is found in every PostScript file created by the dvips command.

So I called HP and asked for the Postscript Level 2 commands required to
make use of the duplexing on the HPLJ4M+. Here's what they told me:

%!<</duplex true/deferred media selection true
/mediaposition 3
/pagesize [612 792]
>> setpagedevice
clippath stroke showpage
clippath stroke showpage Ctrl-d Ctrl-p

I was told to put these lines between the %%EndComments line and the
%%BeginDocument: line

I was also told the following escape codes:

simplex: \027&l0S
duplex long edge: \027&l1S
duplex short edge: \027&l2S

My questions are:

1) Has anyone been successful printing in duplex mode from OSF/1?

2) Will this method work, and if so, where exactly should these lines go?

3) Is there an easier method?

4) Does paper orientation make a difference?

Thank you for your help. I will summarize to the list.

Elise Marie Meyer
Department of Physics
Santa Barbara, CA 93106
Received on Thu Feb 15 1996 - 20:32:27 NZDT

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