Gabriele, Gabriele Bulfon wrote:
> I have two different HPLJ4-compliant printers attached to the parallel port > of two different Solaris 10 x86 machines. > They work fine, but I never have the correct tray selected. I always have to > push some buttons on the printer to tell it to use the automatic tray. > Did you use the 'printmgr' to set up the printers? If so they should have PPD definition files that can be edited for your size of paper and default paper tray (sorry I forget the location of this file). > When using Mozilla, I see the name of the configure printer on the Print > dialog. > Changing the paper format (A4 instead of that useless default 'Letter'), > never selectes the lower tray, and always asks for manual letter feed. > > When using Star Office, I see only a Generic Printer, that works only if I > have a default printer setup in lpd. So, I have very few parameters to work > with (the tray selection is disabled). Selecting A4 never select the correct > tray. > > I happened to use ggv instead of the gnome integrated pdf viewer, and I got > the surprise...when printing, no print dialog was showing, the system started > printing immediatly, selecting automatically the lower tray. > Sorry I don't know about the other questions, but for Mozilla if you can see the printers configured with 'printmgr', and have changed the PPD file(s), then it should work okay. Paul -- ___________________________________________________________ Paul Cunningham Email: paulcun at talk21.com Software Engineer Tel: 01462 685974 Letchworth Garden City Hertfordshire SG6 4LH
