[cups.general] Help needed . Bannerpage configuartion

[Peter Kobe]

We use a Xerox Phaser8400 3 Trays for Color-priting   
I Dektop-configurated Tray 2 Tranceparency and Tray 3 Paper   
I setup 2 Cups-Queues to the phaser:   
phaser_p selecting the Paper Tray   
phaser_t selecting the Transparency Tray   
I want to intall a Bannerpage giving the senders Name   
No matter what Queue the user selects, I want to have Paper for the   
Bannerpage.   
I found in my archives 2 mails concernig this problem.   
H Bliscke writes on 23-10-03   
   
Subject: [cups.general] Re: banner pages using different media/trays fro rest  

of the job?   
Edit the banner files in the banners directory (usually in   
/usr/share/bupd/banners) - insert   
after the "%%EndProlog" line something like the following:   
   
---snip---   
%%BeginSetup   
<</PageSize[595 842]   
  % add more items as requested, e.g. /MediaType (Plain) - query the PPD   
of your   
  % printer for what it supports   
>>setpagedevice   
%%EndSetup   
---snip--   
   
and St. Graf writes on 27-10-03 a bit more explicitly:   
E.G.a banner page for an HP-LaserJet 4000:   
%!   
   
[{   
%%BeginFeature:   
<<   
     /DeferredMediaSelection true   
     /MediaType null   
     /ManualFeed false   
     /MediaPosition 3   
     /Colate false   
     /ImagingBBox null   
     /PageSize [595 842]   
     /TraySwitch false   
     /Duplex false   
 >> setpagedevice   
%%EndFeature   
} stopped cleartomark   
   
%... here follows the banner-drawings....   
   
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Trying eiher of these gives me trouble. The pinter remembers the the last Tray 

used ?   
Example:   
1. Print to phaser_p makes the printer to ask for paper in tray 3. (there is   
paper in) but printer somehow believes not. opening and shutting  the tray   
makes the printer happy   
2. next print to the same queue printer_p works correctly until ... 
3. Print to the other queue (phaser_t) reaches the printer. The printer asks 
to put  
transparency into Tray 3. Again opening and closing the tray makes the printer 

happy   
4. Subsequent printjobs to phaser_t run as wanted until... go to Point 1   
So a switch from one queue to the other makes the printer thinking its the   
wrong MediaType in the paper tray . 
The ouput of printed Data is alway to the wanted Tray   
   
Any hints?   
   
Peter   
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