Printing on different paper trays with Linux?

1996-11-26 Thread Jean Orloff
Hi,

If I have a printer with 2 paper trays, say one containing envelopes, and the
other containing paper, how can I send a print job to one or the other? I
suppose I would have to set up 2 different print queues. But is there support
for such hardware in Linux? At which level? Is it just a matter of writing a
perl script sending the proper escape sequence (as specified in the doc) before
whatever comes out of ghostscript? Has anyone done this? On which printer?

The only experience I have with such matters is puzzled comments from people
trying to print from Windog on a network HP printer. As the Windox drivers have
a paper-tray selection button, they have a way of conveying the info, but it
ends up with erratic error messages like No paper in tray 4. Since there is
no such tray, it would all be normal, except that the user selected tray 1...

Amities,

Jean Orloff
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Re: Printing on different paper trays with Linux?

1996-11-26 Thread Guy Maor
Jean Orloff [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:

 If I have a printer with 2 paper trays [...]

You've already figured out how to do it - multiple queues.  Each uses
some small program to send the proper escape codes.  It's straight-
forward to set up.


Guy


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