[cups.general] Re: Help needed . Bannerpage configuartion

[Helge Blischke]

Peter Kobe wrote:
> 
> Helge Blischke answered
> > 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?
> >>
> > 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
> >
> Helge,
> what ever Combination of (/MediaType (Paper)
>                           /MediaClass (Paper)
>                           /MediaPosition 2
>                           /PageSize [5955 842])
> in the modified phaser.banner is chosen, the printer thinks it has the wrong
> type in tray 3.
> Fact is CUPS has no problems to print its data to the selected Media.
> Peter

Did you really tell the printer what paper is loaded in which tray? It
must be configured
somehow, but the methods are different from vendor to vendor or even
from model to model.
E.g. recent HP printers provide an HTTP interface to perform such
configuration tasks.

Helge


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