multi tray

[atze]

> atze wrote:
>
> >> atze wrote:
> >>
> >> >> atze wrote:
> >> >>
> >> >> > hi,
> >> >> > I didn't find anything in the api - is it possible to switch the
> >> >> > printer tray within a printjob? Is there another way to do that?
> >> >> > greets, andreas.
> >> >>
> >> >> Yes, but there is no CUPS API to do that. You need to insert the
> >> >> respective statements into the job data at the proper posotion(s),
> >> >> preferably just before the page where it is to get active.
> >> >>
> >> >> Helge
> >> >>
> >> > Helge, thank you for you fast answer. Just to fill in some missing gaps
> >> > - If I want to print a pdf to different trays, I have to filter it to
> >> > ps myself and then add the appropriate ps commands in the ps, right?
> >> Yes, but see the note below.
> >> >
> >> > Somehow this didn't seem to work - am I missing something? Do you maybe
> >> > have a simple 2 page ps that does that? atze.
> >> >
> >> > %%BeginPageSetup
> >> > %
> >> > [{
> >> > %%BeginFeature: *InputSlot Upper
> >> > << /MediaPosition 3 >> setpagedevice
> >> > %%EndFeature
> >> > } stopped cleartomark
> >> > %%EndPageSetup
> >>
> >> You may make use of the standard filtering by CUPS and insert the special
> >> statements by a special filter, say, trayfilter, and force this filter to
> >> be called as the very last filter by inserting the line
> >> *cupsFilter: "application/vnd.cups-postscript 0 trayfilter"
> >> into the PPD (near the beginning, around the general printer properties).
> >>
> >> Helge
> >>
> > thank you for pointing this out - sounds like a nice way to handle this.
> >
> > Right now I am still having trouble to make a ps file that really prints
> > on 2 trays. The lines above were copied from a former post - but they
> > don't seem to work for me. My printer is a hp4000 laserjet with the
> > following media:
> >
> > InputSlot/Media Source: *Auto Upper Middle Lower LargeCapacity Envelope
> >
>
> Look into the printer's PPD for the respective PostScript statements.
> Presumably (at least in the Laserjet 4000 PPD I have) the media position is
> as follows:
>
> Tray		/MediaPosition
> -------------------------------------------------------------
> Upper		3
> Middle		2
> Lower		1
> LargeCapacity	4
> Envelope		2
>
> The "Auto" entry is, AFAIK, a pecuilarity from CUPS 1.1.x and probably has
> an empty value.
>
> Helge
>
>
I am a little confused:
lp -o media=middle test.ps
will work - paper is printed from the middle tray

but having the above in the ps wouldn't do the trick (Medaiposition should be ok) if I do this:
lp test.ps

Am I missing something? Strange enough printing from openoffice works.
andreas.