[cups.general] HP 5200 different media types in different trays?

[Jason Sullivan]

On Tue, Jul 15, 2008 at 9:58 AM, Helge Blischke <h.blischke at srz.de> wrote:
> The printer should have a web interface which permits all the necessary
> configuration steps.
>
> Make sure to set up the media size / type for all the trays of your
> printer and select the media by media size and/or type. That is much more
> reliable than selecting the input trays by number, since most HP printers
> by default are configured to automatically switch trays whenever the current
> one gets empty.

Well, I checked the web interface on the printer, and everything seems
to check out.  It reports 11x17 size paper in tray 3, and regular
paper in tray 2.  So I tried to print out my google calendar sideways
on an 11x17 sheet.  Go to page setup, select 11x17 rotated.  Go to
print.  Print.  First time it comes out of tray 2 on a regular sheet
with only part of the image printed.  Second time I force tray 3, and
get the "load regular paper into tray 3" message on the printer.  I
tell the printer (driectly, though the front panel buttons) to ignore
that, and I get the same thing that I got with try 1, part of an
image, only this time there's a lot more blank paper.

So it seems like the printer knows what's going on, but CUPS doesn't
seem to have that information, or is passing improper requests to the
printer.  What next?


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Jason Sullivan
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