Hum,
I did find those in Laserjet 9000mfp user's guide (watch for wrap)
http://h20000.www2.hp.com/bizsupport/CoreRedirect.jsp?targetPage=http%3A%2F%
2Fh200002.www2.hp.com%2Fbc%2Fdocs%2Fsupport%2FSupportManual%2Fbpl11725%2Fbpl
11725.pdf
(watch for wrap) page 231:
Paper type Ec&n#
5WdBond = Bond
6WdPlain = Plain
6WdColor = Color
7WdLabels = Labels
9WdRecycled = Recycled
11WdLetterhead = Letterhead
10WdCardstock = Cardstock
11WdPrepunched = Prepunched
11WdPreprinted = Preprinted
13WdTransparency = Transparency
#WdCustompapertype = Customa
HTH
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Denis (Remove "removeit." from email address)
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"Tracy Pierce" <[log in to unmask]> wrote in message
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> Thanks for your reply, but
>
> actually, because we have to load special paper (letterhead or prepunch)
> BACKWARD to make normally-sequenced (read un-windows-driver-cheated) page
2
> end up on the reverse side of the paper (because the printer itself prints
> duplex backward in order to meet throughput specs), configing the tray
does
> no good at all - it just lets a Windows job screw up by assuming it's
> supposed to do its cheat. (confusing, isn't it?!)
>
> The way we really do it is:
>
> 1) load the paper backward. from the operator's point of view, clearly
> wrong.
> 2) from the e3k fregzample, specify duplex via environment file, let fly.
> the combined backward paper and the printer's cheat produce joy.
> 3) from Windoze, request special paper, let the driver do its shuffle
thing.
> the printer, NOT knowing it has special paper, pauses to request it. In
> response, put the paper in the tray correctly, and tell the printer to use
> that tray / papertype INSTEAD of the requested papertype, let the printer
do
> ITS cheat, and again we have joy.
>
> all solved, eh? nope: the next 'natural sequence' job, coming from the
e3k
> fregzample, goes onto the paper backward because the paper's loaded
> correctly! so we get around that by telling the printer that its trays
hold
> paper no one here would ever request!
>
> The solution? Use somebody else's printers that don't cheat to meet
> throughput specs and require cheating by the driver. Too late, we already
> bought this one! So now we need either
>
> a) an e3k spooler that knows it's supposed to shuffle the pages for
cheating
> hp printers doing duplex, effectively an MPE PCL6 driver for a 9000 (yes
> it's an hp printer), and a PCL5e driver for 5skMX and 8100, and a whole
new
> set of programs designed to not know where the output's headed.
>
> b) don't know if it's possible, but maybe we could write a smart
environment
> file which would cause the printer to do the Windoze driver cheat.
>
> It all really boils down to "to get proper output from the printer, you
have
> to know the printer before you create its data stream". Windows handles
> that reasonably well via drivers. Other OSes such as UX & MPE don't do so
> well - the data stream's built with some, but not nearly enough, knowledge
> of its destination. Moving an mpe spoofle from one printer to another's a
> piece of cake, but it's already too late to rearrange the data.
>
>
> Again Thanks much for your reply, but
>
> 1) the original question was "where do I (John Pitman) find docs re the
> escape sequences used to specify a papertype?", asked because specifying
> trays is fraught with problems. My now-very-long response to that was
> briefly "hp doesn't want you to find them - you'll discover that the
> hardware doesn't work right. instead they want you to use the Windows
> driver, hoping they'll get away without the 'broken!' label on the box".
>
> 2) The response _I_ seek is to...
> >> <snip>
> >> *correct me please someone? As I understand it, the reason hp appears
on
> >> virtually all early, and a very good percentage of recent laser
printers
> >> is not that hp 'invent'ed them, but rather that hp had PCL, a reasonabl
y
> >> mature and adaptable language for communicating with Canon's new laser
> engine.
> >> How the contracts betwixt hp & Canon actually worked, I dunno, but hp
won
> the
> >> big prize, industry 'standard'. Other than PCL, hp's contribution to
the
> >> laser printer world is marketing (and of course claimed 100%
hp-laserjet
> > > compatibility;-)
> > >
> > > Tracy Pierce
>
> Since I see by your email address that you're Inside HP, you probably
> a) know the real skinny on all this and are thus the perfect respondent,
and
> b) don't dare address it publicly (got a mortgage?).
>
> Hoping b) is wrong,
>
> Tracy (pretty longwinded on this subject!) Pierce
>
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