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Re: Network printing, NPCONFIG, & data_intray
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Gary Jackson <[log in to unmask]>
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Gary Jackson <[log in to unmask]>
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Thu, 18 Oct 2001 15:16:40 -0700
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Gary asks a follow-up question:

So, is there a way in NPCONFIG, or in the setup file itself, to demand a
paper type of "pre-punched".  I'm suspecting that it's a PCL command in the
setup file that is the answer.

Gary

-----Original Message-----
From: Wirt Atmar [mailto:[log in to unmask]]
Sent: Thursday, October 18, 2001 3:05 PM
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Subject: Re: [HP3000-L] Network printing, NPCONFIG, & data_intray


Gary asks:

> After scouring the archives of HP3000-L I am still confused.  I have an HP
>  8xxx LaserJet with a 2000 sheet bin.  I configured NPCONFIG with
>  data_intray=4.  After doing a STARTSPOOL, the printer demanded that I
load
>  paper in tray 2.  Trays 2 and 3 had been pulled out to try and force a
tray
>  4 selection.  I could not find a way to get it to take paper from tray 4
>  UNTIL I looked at the LaserJet configuration for tray 4 and found that it
>  had been defined as "pre-punched", since that is what was in it.  I
changed
>  it to "plain" and then the spooler would take paper from tray 4.  Does
>  network printing require that the paper come from bins marked "plain"?
How
>  do it know?

It isn't that it "knows". It's more that you didn't asked for "legal" or
"prepunched" in your specification. If you had done one of these things, the
LaserJet would have either found and used the drawer that you requested, or
it wouldn't have printed anything at all, if there was no drawer that
matched
what you required.

In the absence of one of these esoteric specifications, any drawer is
equally
capable of being drawn from -- and depending on how you have your LaserJet
set up -- it may well draw from all of them until every drawer is empty.

In either circumstance, the decision is being made by the LaserJet, not the
HP3000 network print spooler.

Wirt Atmar

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