have you looked into requesting a specific paper type instead of specifying
trays?  I suggest this because it's actually a much more sensible method of
paper selection, which may well have superceded tray selection (other
sequences have been dropped, too, but I can't recall which ones offhand).  I
think that's a PCL6 thing that appeared first on HP5SIMX or so, at which
point tray specs were also supported.  When we had a new one of those (8 or
so years ago?) HP Boise denied the existence of PCL beyond 5 "we don't do it
that way any more", but has later acknowledged it AND provided some bug
fixes including using the Windoze PCL6 driver to fix the cheat engineered to
produce full-speed duplex output (HP5simx and HP8100 both print the back
side first, a hardware thing, transparent until you use letterhead or
prepunch).  And I'd still love to find a manual, but everything's done with
drivers now, so you have to join HP's printer developer resource to see any
of it.

Anyway, the paper selection bit does make a lot better sense than tray
selection.
tell the printer itself what paper's in each tray, then have your app choose
paper, what you really wanted in the first place, eliminates need-to-know
each printer model's tray layout & contents.

Tracy Pierce

> -----Original Message-----
> From: John Pitman [mailto:[log in to unmask]]
> Sent: Sunday, January 04, 2004 7:42 PM
> To: [log in to unmask]
> Subject: Printer trays.....network printers
>
>
> Still having a problem here...
> If I define a Xerox printer with two Ldev nos, with
> data_intray=1 on one
> ldev, and data_intray = 4 on the other, I can send
> interleaved spool files
> to them and it works beautifully. If I remove data_intray =
> 4, and try to
> use setup_file=x.hpenv where x contains <Esc>&l4H  (PCL for
> use lower tray),
> nothing works, it doesnt even rotate to landscape (understand
> that part). If
> I embed the esc sequence in the data at start it works, but
> thats not a
> viable solution. In fact if I send the tray value anything
> from 2 to 5, it
> uses bottom tray.
>  I want to use this on an HP2300 laserjet, but it looks like
> these later
> models dont respond to PJL Data_intray commands.....something
> I saw on ITRC
> . So, how do I get this printer to work please?
>
> thanks,
> John Pitman
>
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