My original message is below. Thank you very much to everyone who
responded. Richard's message gave us the info that we needed.
-----Original Message-----
From: Richard xxxx
Sent: Friday, April 05, 2002 4:10 PM
To: Myszkowski.Mark
Subject: Re: Printer escape commands in postscript
The problem is that PostScript will reset the tray and you must put the
command in the PostScript file being sent to the printer like so:
% for the LaserJunk4, the trays are as follows:
%
% tray 0 = upper cassette
% tray 1 = lower cassette
% tray 2 = optional envelope feeder
% tray 3 = multipurpose tray
%
statusdict begin
%
% say this for lower tray
%
1 setpapertray
%
% say this for upper tray
%
0 setpapertray
end
...
Moset of the above is comments so you really need only three lines:
statusdict begin
1 setpapertray
end
That you need to stuff in near the beginning of the PostScript file
before "EndProlog". This may be easy or it may not be, we do it here with
gnu troff jobs using Perl but it could also be done with sed.
Richard Loken VE6BSV, Systems Programmer - VMS : "...underneath those
Athabasca University : tuques we wear, our
heads
Athabasca, Alberta Canada : are naked!"
** tech_at_cs.athabascau.ca ** : - Arthur Black
Richard Loken VE6BSV, Systems Programmer - VMS : "...underneath those
Athabasca University : tuques we wear, our
heads
Athabasca, Alberta Canada : are naked!"
** tech_at_cs.athabascau.ca ** : - Arthur Black
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We would like to send commands like
<ESC>&l2A (for letter)
<ESC>&l1H (for upper tray)
<ESC>&l4H (for lower tray)
to a postscript printer queue like this:
lp536|pedc0961ps|pedc0961ps:\
:lf=/usr/adm/lp536err:\
:lp=:\
:rm=pedc0961:\
:rp=hpstream:\
:sd=/usr/spool/lpd536:
Right now the command sequences are ignored but if I change the "rp" value
to "text" then they work fine. We need this to be a postscript queue
however. How can we control the tray if the queue is setup for postscript?
Thank you very much,
Mark Myszkowski
mark.myszkowski_at_wepco.com
Received on Mon Apr 08 2002 - 13:22:22 NZST