[cups.general] Probably stupid questions, but I'm confused

[Kurt Pfeifle]

Gerald Britton wrote:
> Thanks, Kurt, I'll play with both ipp and socket and see if there's
> much difference.  About the Tray 1 option:
> 
> The first section in the Set Printer Options screen is "Options
> installed" which has radio buttons for "Tray  1:"  I set it to
> "Installed" since my printer has one.
> 
> Down in the General section, there's another prompt:
> 
>     Tray 1 (Manual):
> 
> with "True" and "False" radio buttons.   Does this have the same
> meaning as the similar prompt in the "Options installed" section or
> does it have another purpose?

Uhmmm.... no definite idea.

Is your "Tray 1 (Manual)" a sideways installed tray, that has
adjustable guides?

It could mean that it is what you want to use it for custom and variable
page sizes or "Automatic" tray selection if all other trays have a non-
fitting paper size loaded, giving you a prompt at the printer display
for now inserting the right sheets into the Tray 1 (true for manual feed
enabled), or it could mean that it will pull paper from Tray 1 if you
specified that tray whatever that size is there (false for manual feed
enabled).

Don't you have a printer manual for that thingie? Doesn't Google find
one? For sure, the behavior of this switch is documented somewhere....

> FYI the ppd I'm using is the HP LaserJet 9040 MFP postscript driver

Grabbed from...? The Linuxprinting.org database? A Windows installation?
Shipped by...? The distro vendor? The HP driver CD?

I could probably figure that out if I had access to the PPD to install
it here temporarily and look at it...

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