Printing to a specific tray on HP8000 Laser
Greetings, I have a laptop I use all day at work running SuSE 7.3. I have configured it to print to an HP8000 shared on an NT network. I can get my print jobs there without a problem, but they always print out of bottom tray (tray 3) which is loaded with letterhead. Is there a way I can tell my print jobs to go to the upper tray (tray 2) which has regular paper? TIA, Keith <rant> Linux is superior to Windows in many ways, but the print system(s) are a mess. There's LPR, LPRng, CUPS, Foomatic, etc. As much as I like choice, I don't think it is a Good Thing to have this situation when it comes to printing. </rant> __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Yahoo! GeoCities - quick and easy web site hosting, just $8.95/month. http://geocities.yahoo.com/ps/info1
On Monday 26 November 2001 03:46 pm, Keith Winston wrote:
Greetings,
I have a laptop I use all day at work running SuSE 7.3. I have configured it to print to an HP8000 shared on an NT network. I can get my print jobs there without a problem, but they always print out of bottom tray (tray 3) which is loaded with letterhead. Is there a way I can tell my print jobs to go to the upper tray (tray 2) which has regular paper?
TIA, Keith
I am using CUPS. Printing to an HP4000 on my network, I can choose Properties from the print dialog, and Tray 2 for Paper Source (and Save if I wanted that for the default). -Liz
Thanks Liz,
I changed to CUPS and I now have more control my printing.
CUPS does not ship with a PCL driver for the HP 8000. It has an
HP 8000 + Postscript driver but I think that is if the printer
is set to print postscript which is not the case. So, I am
using the HP 4050 + foomatic + ljet5 driver.
However, when I select the paper type of letter, the printer
honors the setting and pulls from the tray with regular letter
in it (tray 2, defined on the printer itself) instead of the
default tray 3 which has letterhead in it. So, I am in much
better shape with CUPS than LPR/LPD.
I also had to adjust the left margin a bit.
I have spent many hours at linuxprinting.org and the hp linux
printing site. HP is working to open source all their print
drivers, but due to patent issues, it looks like it will take a
year or two. Hopefully, Linux will someday gain the ease of use
for printing that Windows has. Come to think of it, it took
Windows many years to reach the level of WYSIWYG printing that
it now enjoys.
Thanks again. Keith.
--- Liz Young
On Monday 26 November 2001 03:46 pm, Keith Winston wrote:
Greetings,
I have a laptop I use all day at work running SuSE 7.3. I have configured it to print to an HP8000 shared on an NT network. I can get my print jobs there without a problem, but they always print out of bottom tray (tray 3) which is loaded with letterhead. Is there a way I can tell my print jobs to go to the upper tray (tray 2) which has regular paper?
TIA, Keith
I am using CUPS. Printing to an HP4000 on my network, I can choose Properties from the print dialog, and Tray 2 for Paper Source (and Save if I wanted that for the default).
-Liz
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I have a laptop I use all day at work running SuSE 7.3. I have configured it to print to an HP8000 shared on an NT network. I can get my print jobs there without a problem, but they always print out of bottom tray (tray 3) which is loaded with
I have the same problem. I can easily control the tray within StarOffice and when printing using PCL, put with Postscript from applications like Acroread, it always pulls from tray 3 no matter what I do. I have changed the tray description to letter, pre-printed etc. in hopes of explaining where I want plain paper printed but to no avail. I also find the printing rather slow using Postscript. It may be worth using ghostscript to convert to PCL and then send it. Greg Engel
I think I sent an answer to this before, but here we go again: The answer is, YOU CAN'T. You have to reconfigure the printer, and put your plain paper in the tray that stuff defaults to, and put your Letterhead paper in the other tray. We have some pretty sharp types in the local IT group--one is a VP who has fooled with computers since CPM--and it can't be done. Then set up your specialized software to print your letters to the Letterhead tray. That _can_ be done. --doug At 00:13 11/27/2001 -0500, genge1 wrote:
I have a laptop I use all day at work running SuSE 7.3. I have configured it to print to an HP8000 shared on an NT network. I can get my print jobs there without a problem, but they always print out of bottom tray (tray 3) which is loaded with
I have the same problem. I can easily control the tray within StarOffice and when printing using PCL, put with Postscript from applications like Acroread, it always pulls from tray 3 no matter what I do. I have changed the tray description to letter, pre-printed etc. in hopes of explaining where I want plain paper printed but to no avail.
I also find the printing rather slow using Postscript. It may be worth using ghostscript to convert to PCL and then send it.
Greg Engel
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