Can you make the first page print from a different tray?

Michael Sweet mike at easysw.com
Tue Aug 8 23:57:35 PDT 2006


Adam Nielsen wrote:
>>> the first page comes out of tray 1, and the rest of the document comes out of tray 2.
>>> Is this set up possible?
>> lpadmin -p printername -o AP_FIRSTPAGE_InputSlot-default=foo
> 
> Thanks for your reply Michael - I tried this and it doesn't give me an error, but sending a print job to that printer still prints all pages from the same tray (and that's not the one I set 'foo' to above.)
> 
> Do I need to do anything else to get it to recognise the new option?

It's possible that that PPD puts the InputSlot option in the
document setup section rather than PageSetup or AnySetup.  What
PPD/driver are you using?

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