This is a delayed summary as we had difficulty finding the
solution to the problem. After 2 onsite visits and several phone calls from
Xerox technicians to our remote site, we found that the HP PCL settings had
a default tray of A3. This was overriding all other settings from our
printcap entry, filters, lpr commands, and NT servers.
Warning: if you have any control over what printers are
installed in remote sites, choose a vendor that you are familiar with. We
had not been consulted, had not seen the printer, and had not configured
any Xerox printer before, so did not know the menus on it.
Another good suggestion that may be useful to someone came
from Alex Harkema as below:
after a lot of trial/error I succeeded to do this (on a hp4050)
A lot of info I got from this list, so you may already have solved the
problem...
The solution: use 2 queues. The queue named in de lpr command sends data
through a filter, which sends the data to the 'standard' queue.
# cat /etc/printcap
---- cut here ----
# Standard queue-to-printer
lp71|71:\
:lf=/usr/adm/lp71err:\
:lp=:\
:rm=lapr003.avebe.nl:\
:rp=text:\
:sh:\
:sd=/usr/spool/lpd71:
# UPPER tray printing
lp72|72:\
:if=/var/spool/lpd72/pclfilter:\
:lf=/usr/adm/lp72err:\
:lp=/dev/null:\
:sd=/usr/spool/lpd72:
# LOWER tray printing
lp73|73:\
:if=/var/spool/lpd73/pclfilter:\
:lf=/usr/adm/lp73err:\
:lp=/dev/null:\
:sd=/usr/spool/lpd73:
---- cut here ----
# cat /usr/spool/lpd72/pclfilter
/bin/cat /var/spool/lpd72/pcl - | lp -d lp71
# cat /usr/spool/lpd73/pclfilter
/bin/cat /var/spool/lpd73/pcl - | lp -d lp71
In the files /usr/spool/lpd72/pcl and /usr/spool/lpd73/pcl are the escape
codes: <ctrl>+<v> then press <esc> and type the code:
<esc.char>&l1H - tray 2 (upper)
<esc.char>&l4H - tray 3 (lower)
<esc.char>&l2H - manual feed
for example:
In the file /var/spool/lpd72/pcl is:
^[&l1H
nothing else. Get the correct escape char by pressing <ctrl>+<v> then press
<esc>. Then there is the ampersand sign,
a lower letter l and a 1 (one) for upper tray printing.
Hi,
Can anyone tell me if it is possible to select a specific
paper tray on a Xerox printer using lpr. I am sending print jobs from Unix
to an NT server that has the default tray set to tray 1 (A4). The print jobs
keep sourcing from tray 3 (A3). The printer is a Xerox DocuCentre. My
printcap entry is below:
printername:\
:lp=:NTservername:rp=NTsharename:\
:lf=/usr/adm/printername-errs:\
:sd=/usr/spool/printername:
Regards,
Andrew Fysh
Business Systems Support
ALSTOM
INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY
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E-mail: Andrew.Fysh_at_it.alstom.com.au
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Received on Tue Oct 03 2000 - 22:33:11 NZDT