Printing to alternate trays

Shannon Adams shannon_adams68 at yahoo.com
Tue Mar 2 07:42:52 PST 2010


I typed the following:

"lp -d mc083 -o OptOutputBins=OBin2 sra"
"lp -d mc083 -o OptOutputBins=OBin2 test.pdf"

Both pulled from tray1.

sra is a text document.  test.pdf is a pdf document.

I appreciate any advice.

> Shannon Adams wrote:
> > Using CUPS 1.3.7 on RHEL 5
> >
> > I have a printer setup with three trays (using socket://ip.address:9100).  I need to print to either tray2 or 3 depending on the job.  However, I cannot figure out the correct switch to use to print to either alternate tray.
> >
> > I have tried the following:
> > lp -d mc083 sra
> > lp -d mc083 -o media=Letter,Lower sra
> > lp -d mc083 -o media=Letter,MultiPurpose sra
> >
> > lpoptions -p mc083 -l shows:
> > Trays/Trays: Tray1 Tray12 Tray123 Tray1234 *Tray12345
> > EnvFeeder/Envelope Feeder: NotInstalledM *InstalledM
> > OptDuplex/Duplex: *InstalledM NotInstalledM
> > OptOutputBins/Output Bins: StandardBin OBin1 OBin2 *OBin3
> >
> > Can someone please let me know the command line options/switches to use to allow me to print to tray 2 or 3?
> >
>
> lp -d mc083 -o OptOutputBins=OBin2
> lp -d mc083 -o OptOutputBins=OBin3
>
>
> =
>





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