Re: OT: HPLJ4, PCL, specifically tray selection

[Colin Marquardt <colin@marquardt-home.de>]

"Karsten M. Self" <kmself@ix.netcom.com> writes:

> I've also since discovered the ifhp package, which appears to be
> designed to do pretty much what I'm asking for here, though there's
> rather little guidance provided on how it's supposed to be used.
> Printing in general's always been more or less a mystery to me.
> Printing is in $STATE, I mess with configurations, and eventually
> printer is in ( $STATE - 1 )**2.
> 
> ...I did get sufficiently frustrated with the printcap(5) manpage that I

FWIW, it might be interesting to check out CUPS (has an lpr
"emulator"). It works well with my LJ4V, although I didn't try the
manual feed yet. The PPDs coming with CUPS might also give
information about what codes to send.

Cheers,
  Colin