Thanks to all who responded.....
I eventually did some tests trying to write to this printer with the tray
selection PENV file via fcopy, and got errors back re the PENV file. I wish
there had been a utility for writing these files somewhere, would make life
a lot easier. Notes just say driver removes leading and trailing blanks,
sends whatever is left to printer. But it errors if the rec len is not 512W,
file type not PENV, if data is followed by a mix of blanks and
nulls......very unfriendly. I must have missed that lesson at school.
Anyway, in the end I got a PENV file that did not error with fcopy, and now
the Xerox printer does what I want in regard to trays. Now to test it on the
(sadly) VERY remote hp2300 - 3 time zones away.
Tracy - when I define different papers in the trays, how would I select
by paper type? Cant see a command in PCL 5 (book to hand), cant find a PCL 6
manual that discusses such a command....
thanks,
jp
----- Original Message -----
From: "Goetz Neumann" <[log in to unmask]>
To: <[log in to unmask]>
Sent: Tuesday, January 06, 2004 2:33 AM
Subject: Re: [HP3000-L] Printer trays.....network printers
> John Pitman wrote:
>
> >
> > 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?
>
> I fail to understand why including the PCL command into your
> setup_file does not work but it works when you insert it into
> the data.
> Your setup_file is fixed,ascii,unnumbered or bytestream and
> <Esc> is indeed a byte with decimal value of 27 ?
> Is there indication that other PCL commands in this setup file
> are recognized ? Did you fully qualify the setup_file name in
> NPCONFIG ?
>
> You don't have any global data_intray option in NPCONFIG, do you ?
>
> Goetz.
>
> If the PCL command works in the data body, then we should get
> it working in the setup_file as well.
>
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