other paper tray for page 1

Christoph Kuhn kde at chrisk.ch
Thu Jul 27 16:11:47 PDT 2006


> Christoph Kuhn wrote:
> > page 1               => paper tray 2
> > page 2 and following => paper tray 1

> There is an undocumented option (inherited from MacOS X) for this
> called AP_FIRSTPAGE_InputSlot which will provide this functionality.

Oh, that's nice!

> To make it the default for all jobs, use:
>
>      lpadmin -p printername -o AP_FIRSTPAGE_InputSlot-default=foo
>
> where "foo" is the InputSlot option for tray 2.  Use the lpoptions
> command to see what that is:
>
>      lpoptions -p printername -l

Ok, I tried this out, but no success.

Printer ist Brother HL-2460N with BR-Script3 and also Brother HL-5250DN

Samba-Cups-Server:
SuSE Linux 9.3
Samba Version     : 3.0.13
Cups Version     : 1.1.23  (Is this version to early?)

I tried also to modify my ppd (the first part is original, the others are added by me):

<cutted>
*OpenUI *InputSlot: PickOne
*OrderDependency: 19 AnySetup *InputSlot
*DefaultInputSlot: AutoSelect
*InputSlot AutoSelect/Auto Select: "<</ManualFeed false /BRTraysw true >> setpagedevice"
*InputSlot Tray1/Tray1: "<</ManualFeed false /BRTraysw false /BRFeeder 0>> setpagedevice"
*InputSlot Tray2/Tray2: "<</ManualFeed false /BRTraysw false /BRFeeder 1>> setpagedevice"
*InputSlot Tray3/Tray3: "<</ManualFeed false /BRTraysw false /BRFeeder 2>> setpagedevice"
*InputSlot Tray4/Tray4: "<</ManualFeed false /BRTraysw false /BRFeeder 3>> setpagedevice"
*InputSlot MPTray/MP Tray: "<</ManualFeed false /BRTraysw false /BRFeeder 4>> setpagedevice"
*InputSlot ID1/Tray ID 1: "<</ManualFeed false /BRTraysw false /BRFeeder 100>> setpagedevice"
*InputSlot ID2/Tray ID 2: "<</ManualFeed false /BRTraysw false /BRFeeder 101>> setpagedevice"
*InputSlot ID3/Tray ID 3: "<</ManualFeed false /BRTraysw false /BRFeeder 102>> setpagedevice"
*InputSlot ID4/Tray ID 4: "<</ManualFeed false /BRTraysw false /BRFeeder 103>> setpagedevice"
*CloseUI: *InputSlot

*OpenUI *AP_FIRSTPAGE_InputSlot: PickOne
*OrderDependency: 19 AnySetup *AP_FIRSTPAGE_InputSlot
*DefaultAP_FIRSTPAGE_InputSlot: AutoSelect
*AP_FIRSTPAGE_InputSlot AutoSelect/Auto Select: "<</ManualFeed false /BRTraysw true >> setpagedevice"
*AP_FIRSTPAGE_InputSlot Tray1/Tray1: "<</ManualFeed false /BRTraysw false /BRFeeder 0>> setpagedevice"
*AP_FIRSTPAGE_InputSlot Tray2/Tray2: "<</ManualFeed false /BRTraysw false /BRFeeder 1>> setpagedevice"
*AP_FIRSTPAGE_InputSlot Tray3/Tray3: "<</ManualFeed false /BRTraysw false /BRFeeder 2>> setpagedevice"
*AP_FIRSTPAGE_InputSlot Tray4/Tray4: "<</ManualFeed false /BRTraysw false /BRFeeder 3>> setpagedevice"
*AP_FIRSTPAGE_InputSlot MPTray/MP Tray: "<</ManualFeed false /BRTraysw false /BRFeeder 4>> setpagedevice"
*AP_FIRSTPAGE_InputSlot ID1/Tray ID 1: "<</ManualFeed false /BRTraysw false /BRFeeder 100>> setpagedevice"
*AP_FIRSTPAGE_InputSlot ID2/Tray ID 2: "<</ManualFeed false /BRTraysw false /BRFeeder 101>> setpagedevice"
*AP_FIRSTPAGE_InputSlot ID3/Tray ID 3: "<</ManualFeed false /BRTraysw false /BRFeeder 102>> setpagedevice"
*AP_FIRSTPAGE_InputSlot ID4/Tray ID 4: "<</ManualFeed false /BRTraysw false /BRFeeder 103>> setpagedevice"
*CloseUI: *AP_FIRSTPAGE_InputSlot

*OpenUI *AP_FIRSTPAGE_InputSlot-default: PickOne
*OrderDependency: 19 AnySetup *AP_FIRSTPAGE_InputSlot-default
*DefaultAP_FIRSTPAGE_InputSlot-default: AutoSelect
*AP_FIRSTPAGE_InputSlot-default AutoSelect/Auto Select: "<</ManualFeed false /BRTraysw true >> setpagedevice"
*AP_FIRSTPAGE_InputSlot-default Tray1/Tray1: "<</ManualFeed false /BRTraysw false /BRFeeder 0>> setpagedevice"
*AP_FIRSTPAGE_InputSlot-default Tray2/Tray2: "<</ManualFeed false /BRTraysw false /BRFeeder 1>> setpagedevice"
*AP_FIRSTPAGE_InputSlot-default Tray3/Tray3: "<</ManualFeed false /BRTraysw false /BRFeeder 2>> setpagedevice"
*AP_FIRSTPAGE_InputSlot-default Tray4/Tray4: "<</ManualFeed false /BRTraysw false /BRFeeder 3>> setpagedevice"
*AP_FIRSTPAGE_InputSlot-default MPTray/MP Tray: "<</ManualFeed false /BRTraysw false /BRFeeder 4>> setpagedevice"
*AP_FIRSTPAGE_InputSlot-default ID1/Tray ID 1: "<</ManualFeed false /BRTraysw false /BRFeeder 100>> setpagedevice"
*AP_FIRSTPAGE_InputSlot-default ID2/Tray ID 2: "<</ManualFeed false /BRTraysw false /BRFeeder 101>> setpagedevice"
*AP_FIRSTPAGE_InputSlot-default ID3/Tray ID 3: "<</ManualFeed false /BRTraysw false /BRFeeder 102>> setpagedevice"
*AP_FIRSTPAGE_InputSlot-default ID4/Tray ID 4: "<</ManualFeed false /BRTraysw false /BRFeeder 103>> setpagedevice"
*CloseUI: *AP_FIRSTPAGE_InputSlot-default
</cutted>

/var/log/cups/error.log:

I [27/Jul/2006:20:47:22 +0200] Job 47377 queued on 'IBS_Kopf_P1' by 'chris'.
I [27/Jul/2006:20:47:22 +0200] Started filter /usr/lib/cups/filter/pstops (PID 4415) for job 47377.
I [27/Jul/2006:20:47:22 +0200] Started backend /usr/lib/cups/backend/socket (PID 4416) for job 47377.
I [27/Jul/2006:21:00:08 +0200] Adding start banner page "none" to job 47378.
I [27/Jul/2006:21:00:08 +0200] Adding end banner page "none" to job 47378.

That's all. I can't find more infos in the Logs.




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