[cups.general] Help needed . Bannerpage configuartion
Helge Blischke
H.Blischke at srz-berlin.de
Fri Nov 26 05:06:51 PST 2004
Peter Kobe wrote:
>
> 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....
>
> --------------------------
> 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
Thise tricks require that the body job explicitely defines where to get
the
paper from. Thar is, you *must* configure your printer accordingly.
But note, many recent printers support the specification of a media type
by the same PPD keyword (usually InputSlot), and if both media type and
slot
number are supported, media type often takes precedence over slot
number.
Helge
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