other paper tray for page 1

[Kurt Pfeifle]

Christoph Kuhn <kde at chrisk.ch> wrote (Friday 28 July 2006 01:11):

>> 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.

OK, again then: What is in fact the result of

   lpoptions -p your_printername -l

with the un-modified PPD? And you did really try

   lp -d your_printername -o InputSlot=Tray1 -o AP_FIRSTPAGE_InputSlot=Tray2 /path/to/file

?