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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