This is way off topic, but does anyone on this list no of a list for the AS400's similar to this one.  I got myself on one that I
found but after a month without a single message I figured I was in the wrong church.

We are having problems getting print jobs from the AS400 to print from a normal paper tray on several of our HP2200 laserjets.  The
all have the extra 500 page drawer, with legal paper in the top drawer(2) and letter paper in the bottom drawer(3).  The manual feed
is drawer(1).

We have ONE that prints correctly and the sys admin tells me all the other ones (3) are configured the same, implying that we are
configuring the printers wrong here.   So we did a test - we bought a bran new one set it's IP address to be the same as the one
that works and put the new one in it's place on the network.  Print jobs to the new one behaved just like the old one, defaulting to
print from the legal paper in drawer(2).  Next we put the original printer back and swapped out one of the "bad" ones with the new
one that we just proved to work, again setting it's IP address to match the bad one.  Sent the same print job to at that printer and
voila it misbehaves just like the one it replaced.
Too me, this proves that there has to be something different at the sending end, I don't know enough about the configuration of the
AS400 (yet) to tell the sysadmin what to check.

By misbehaving I mean the print job will print if we want to stand by the printer hitting the button for every page, or put a stack
of paper in the manual paper tray.  The one that behaves does not do this.
If I tell the print job to specifically print from drawer(2) or drawer(3), even the "bad" printers work fine, but I don't want to
have to change the drawer for every print job.

An interesting quirk in this is that if I send something to the printer that works and tell it specifically to print from drawer(2)
(the one it prints from by default), it behaves as if I told it to print from the manual paper tray.

It's entirely possible that the one that behaves the way we like is actually screwed up and the others is the proper behaviour.  I
hope not.  But if it is the case, is there a way to make an AS400 play nicely with the HP2000's?

Bob Comeau
Sr. Systems Programmer Analyst
Crossley Carpet Mills Ltd.
(902)895-5491 ex 139

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