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Re: OT: HPLJ4, PCL, specifically tray selection



on Fri, Aug 31, 2001 at 12:58:16AM +0200, Erdmut Pfeifer (e.pfeifer@science-computing.de) wrote:
> On Thu, Aug 30, 2001 at 10:36:50AM -0700, Karsten M. Self wrote:
> > 
> > The one way I've found to use the manual tray to date has been through
> > WP8, which apparently uses printer-specific controls rather than just
> > treating the device as an arbitrary postscript printer.
> 
> just in case you tend to favor a generic and straightforward
> PostScript solution, give the following code snippet a try:
> 
> %!PS
> << /ManualFeed true >> setpagedevice
> 
> % example output -- real document would go here
> /Helvetica findfont 20 scalefont setfont
> 100 600 moveto
> (This tests whether ManualFeed is supported) show
> showpage

This did in fact work as advertised.  I'm stepping out for a bit, will
play with this more shortly.

Thanks.

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