I've been living with this problem for 3 years now and finally have found
time to install a new version of LPRng(3.6.19) and ifhp (3.4.4) hoping that
it would be able to help.
Problem: All postscript jobs print to the lowest tray. In our HP5SiMX
printer that equates to tray 3 which has legal paper in it. We tried
swapping the legal and letter paper but have problems at times with the
printer not being able to pull the letter paper all the way up from the
lowest tray.
Solution:
I've been searching the archives for solutions. The best I saw was from
Thomas Emmel on Nov. 1999. He said the lines such as:
ps_tray1=<</DeferredMediaSelection true /MediaPosition 3>> setpagedevice
were causing problems.
He suggested changing the lines within the [hp5simx] section (I assumed) to:
ps_tray1=statusdict begin 3 setpapertray end
ps_tray2=statusdict begin 0 setpapertray end
ps_tray3=statusdict begin 1 setpapertray end
That supposedly worked for him but yet allowed the users to switch paper
sizes in their postscript.
This did not work for me but I'm wondering if I've setup everything correctly.
Here's the printcap entry:
csga :sd=/var/spool/lpd/%P
:lp=csgradasst.cs.bgsu.edu%9100
:ifhp=model=hp5simx
:lpd_bounce ( I need to double check if I really need this)
:filter=/usr/libexec/filters/ifhp
Here is the file_match info from ifhp.conf:
# set forceconversion to force the file(1) utility to be used
default_language=text
forceconversion@
## UNIX File utility path
file_util_path= /usr/local/bin/file -
## Patterns and Converters
# example conversion program
file_output_match = [
*postscript* ps \%s{ps_converter}
*pcl* pcl \%s{pcl_converter}
*pjl* pjl \%s{pjl_converter}
*pdf* ps \%s{pdf_converter}
*printer*job*language* pjl
*text* ps \%s{a2ps_converter}
*gzip_compressed* filter \%s{gzip_decompress}
]
# gs_device=epsonc
# gs_options=-r240x72
# gs_converter= /usr/local/bin/gs -dSAFER -dBATCH -q -sOutputfile=-
-sDEVICE=\%s{device}
# \%s{gs_options} -
#
#
gs_converter= /usr/local/bin/gs -q -dSAFER -dBATCH -sOutputFile=-
-sPAPERSIZE=\%L{papersize} -sDEVICE=\%s{gs_device} \%s{gs_options} -
gs_unidriver= /usr/local/bin/gs -q -dSAFER -dBATCH -sOutputFile=-
-sPAPERSIZE=\%L{papersize} @\%s{gs_device} \%s{gs_options} -
#a2ps_options= -q -B -1 -M \%M{papersize} --borders=no -o-
# 3/16/01 - lweihl - modify default a2ps options line to get output for CS
standard look and feel
a2ps_options= -q '--header=Printed by: \%s{n}' '--stdin=\%s{J}'
--font-size=9 --columns=1 --portrait -M \%M{papersize} --borders=yes -o-
a2ps_converter= /usr/local/bin/a2ps \%s{a2ps_options}
gzip_decompress = /usr/local/bin/gzip -c -d
pdf_converter = /usr/libexec/filters/acroread-wrapper.sh
ps_converter=
pcl_converter=
pjl_converter=
text_converter=
Any ideas anyone?
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Lisa Weihl, System Administrator E-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Department of Computer Science Office: Hayes 225
Bowling Green State University Phone: (419) 372-0116
Bowling Green, Ohio 43403-0214 Fax: (419) 372-8061
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