multi tray

[Helge Blischke]

atze wrote:

>> atze wrote:
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>> >> atze wrote:
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>> >> >> atze wrote:
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>> >> >> >> atze wrote:
>> >> >> >>
>> >> >> >> > hi,
>> >> >> >> > I didn't find anything in the api - is it possible to switch
>> >> >> >> > the printer tray within a printjob? Is there another way to do
>> >> >> >> > that? greets, andreas.
>> >> >> >>
>> >> >> >> Yes, but there is no CUPS API to do that. You need to insert the
>> >> >> >> respective statements into the job data at the proper
>> >> >> >> posotion(s), preferably just before the page where it is to get
>> >> >> >> active.
>> >> >> >>
>> >> >> >> Helge
>> >> >> >>
>> >> >> > Helge, thank you for you fast answer. Just to fill in some
>> >> >> > missing gaps - If I want to print a pdf to different trays, I
>> >> >> > have to filter it to ps myself and then add the appropriate ps
>> >> >> > commands in the ps, right?
>> >> >> Yes, but see the note below.
>> >> >> >
>> >> >> > Somehow this didn't seem to work - am I missing something? Do you
>> >> >> > maybe have a simple 2 page ps that does that? atze.
>> >> >> >
>> >> >> > %%BeginPageSetup
>> >> >> > %
>> >> >> > [{
>> >> >> > %%BeginFeature: *InputSlot Upper
>> >> >> > << /MediaPosition 3 >> setpagedevice
>> >> >> > %%EndFeature
>> >> >> > } stopped cleartomark
>> >> >> > %%EndPageSetup
>> >> >>
>> >> >> You may make use of the standard filtering by CUPS and insert the
>> >> >> special statements by a special filter, say, trayfilter, and force
>> >> >> this filter to be called as the very last filter by inserting the
>> >> >> line *cupsFilter: "application/vnd.cups-postscript 0 trayfilter"
>> >> >> into the PPD (near the beginning, around the general printer
>> >> >> properties).
>> >> >>
>> >> >> Helge
>> >> >>
>> >> > thank you for pointing this out - sounds like a nice way to handle
>> >> > this.
>> >> >
>> >> > Right now I am still having trouble to make a ps file that really
>> >> > prints on 2 trays. The lines above were copied from a former post -
>> >> > but they don't seem to work for me. My printer is a hp4000 laserjet
>> >> > with the following media:
>> >> >
>> >> > InputSlot/Media Source: *Auto Upper Middle Lower LargeCapacity
>> >> > Envelope
>> >> >
>> >>
>> >> Look into the printer's PPD for the respective PostScript statements.
>> >> Presumably (at least in the Laserjet 4000 PPD I have) the media
>> >> position is as follows:
>> >>
>> >> Tray		/MediaPosition
>> >> -------------------------------------------------------------
>> >> Upper		3
>> >> Middle		2
>> >> Lower		1
>> >> LargeCapacity	4
>> >> Envelope		2
>> >>
>> >> The "Auto" entry is, AFAIK, a pecuilarity from CUPS 1.1.x and probably
>> >> has an empty value.
>> >>
>> >> Helge
>> >>
>> >>
>> > I am a little confused:
>> > lp -o media=middle test.ps
>> > will work - paper is printed from the middle tray
>> >
>> > but having the above in the ps wouldn't do the trick (Medaiposition
>> > should be ok) if I do this: lp test.ps
>> >
>> > Am I missing something? Strange enough printing from openoffice works.
>> > andreas.
>>
>> Sorry, I made a typo. From my instance of the Laserjet 4000 PPD
>> the middle tray (tray 2) has the media position 0.
>>
>> Helge
>>
> helge you are right - thanks again. But still this didn't change anything
> :(
> 
> So I wrote a perl filter to copy the file away for comparison. Even tho
> the feature is in the original ps file it's only in the copied file (after
> last filter) if I use the '-o media=middle" option on commandline.
> 
> Somewhere this info seems to get stripped....
> greets, andreas.

Maybe you have a CUPS version that strips away everything between (and 
including) the %%BeginFeature and %%EndFeature comments?

Try simply e.g.

%%BeginPageSetup
<</MediaPosition 0>>setpagedevice
%%EndPageSetup

to switch to the middle tray.

Helge