multi tray

[atze]

> atze wrote:
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> >> atze wrote:
> >>
> >> >> 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.
> >>
> >> Sorry, I made a typo. From my instance of the Laserjet 4000 PPD
> >> the middle tray (tray 2) has the media position 0.
> >>
> >> Helge
> >>
> > helge you are right - thanks again. But still this didn't change anything
> > :(
> >
> > So I wrote a perl filter to copy the file away for comparison. Even tho
> > the feature is in the original ps file it's only in the copied file (after
> > last filter) if I use the '-o media=middle" option on commandline.
> >
> > Somewhere this info seems to get stripped....
> > greets, andreas.
>
> Maybe you have a CUPS version that strips away everything between (and
> including) the %%BeginFeature and %%EndFeature comments?
>
> Try simply e.g.
>
> %%BeginPageSetup
> <</MediaPosition 0>>setpagedevice
> %%EndPageSetup
>
> to switch to the middle tray.
>
> Helge
>
Yeah you must be right (I am on ubuntu 9.10/cups 1.4.1).
But I also downloaded 1.4.2 and installed the filters - so is this problem still in there?

I added the 'Feature' in my perl filter and now it works.

thanks a lot,
andreas.