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- Newsgroups: comp.lang.postscript
- Path: sparky!uunet!brunix!brunix!jgm
- From: jgm@cs.brown.edu (Jonathan Monsarrat)
- Subject: How to switch paper trays?
- Message-ID: <1992Nov19.215824.4822@cs.brown.edu>
- Sender: news@cs.brown.edu
- Organization: Brown University Department of Computer Science
- Date: Thu, 19 Nov 1992 21:58:24 GMT
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- I'm posting this for a friend. --Jon
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- Hello netters (or should I say nutters??? :-)
-
- I am having trouble posting to this group and so Jonathan Monsarrat has
- been kind enough to post this article on behalf of myself. Please address
- any replies to pjc@melb.bull.oz.au, not to the poster.
-
- I am trying to develop some postscript code that will control which of
- two paper trays the next page will be printed from. Unfortunately, I
- do not have access to such a printer to test my code and the one
- person I know who does have access seems to be unavailable at the
- moment.
-
- I have defined the following functions in my prolog:
-
- /BinT {statusdict begin 0 setpapertray end} def
- /BinB {statusdict begin 1 setpapertray end} def
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- Before each StartPage sequence, I call one of the above functions to
- set the desired paper tray. E.g.
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- BinT
- StartPage
-
- My contact, as mentioned above, did get to try it once and said that
- it didn't seem to work before he became unavailable, so I have the
- following questions:
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- 1. I suspect that different printers may number their paper trays
- differently (i.e. 0 and 1 or 1 and 2). Is this the case and, if
- so, what printers use what numbers? Is there a way of querying the
- printer about its paper trays?
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- 2. Is my usage of the setpapertray command correct?
-
- I would appreciate any and all information relating to this topic - would
- you please email me at pjc@melb.bull.oz.au and I will arrange to have the
- results posted if there is any interest.
-
- Thanks in advance!
-
- Blueskies from down-under,
- Paul
-
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