Dirk De Pauw wrote:
> In our department we have a HP 4Mplus printer. Each time someone prints
> a LETTER pagesize we need to press the continue button for every page,
> because we don't use letter but A4.
> Is there a way to force the printer to always use A4 or to reject LETTER
> printjobs using the LPRng and the ifhp filter ?
I had a much better idea for you on my way home last night
assuming that my surmize of what was happening was correct:
When you turn the printer on send it the following job;
%!
serverdict begin 0 exitserver
<< /Policies << /PageSize 3 >> >> setpagedevice
What this does is to permanently set the pagesize policy option to 3
which means it will survive from job to job. This is assuming that
the queue filters don't disallow it somehow and that you don't get a
job that sets it for itself - some do. However if a job does set it
for itself the value will revert to 3 for the next job.
It will not, however, survive a reboot. If you repower the printer
you'll have to send it again. Please let me know if it works for you.
> What this does is tell the printer that if it doesn't have the right
> sized paper that it should rescale the image to fit on what it does
> have. Of course this works only if the job specifically requests a
> different sized paper.
If you want to check to see what various values are send it the
following job. The output should appear in the printer log.
Jim
%!
statusdict begin
(printername ) print 30 string printername =
(product is ) print product =
(appletalktype ) print appletalktype =
(total pages = ) print pagecount =
% (duplexmode is ) print duplexmode =
% (tumble is ) print tumble =
% /appletalktype (LaserWriter) def
% (hp628) setprintername % some require this form
% /printername (CS323) def % and some require this
% (defaultoutputtray is ) print defaultoutputtray =
% /defaultoutputtray 1 def
% (defaultoutputtray is ) print defaultoutputtray =
% /outputtray 1 def
% outputtray (out tray is ) print =
flush
end
currentpagedevice
(size of page ) print
/PageSize get ==
currentpagedevice
/Policies get
(PageSize policy option ) print
/PageSize get == flush
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