[cups.general] JobSheets printed from a different input tray

Michael Sweet msweet at apple.com
Fri Sep 24 08:40:29 PDT 2010


On Sep 24, 2010, at 7:18 AM, Steve Wilson wrote:
> On 09/23/2010 02:24 PM, Michael Sweet wrote:
>> 
>> On Sep 23, 2010, at 10:17 AM, Helge Blischke wrote:
>>> ...
>>> In CUPS 1.4.x, the banner pages are generated from a data type calld 
>>> "application/vnd.cups-banner" and converted to PostScript by the bannertops 
>>> filter. Unfortunately, this filter does not supply options deviating from  
>>> the general job options.
>> 
>> FWIW, the new banner format is used for the standard banners and the test page, but we don't restrict banners to this format. As before, you can use any format you like as long as it doesn't mind having strings inserted into the file in the appropriate places.
>> 
>> More likely the issue has to do with changes to pstops in 1.4.x - the default PPD options are probably getting applied after the custom code Steve has added, leading to them being "ignored"...  Small changes to the banner files should be enough to tell pstops where to insert the printer options from the PPD file.
>> 
> 
> >From your last statement, does that mean that there's potentially some change that I can make to my custom banner page that would allow my tray selection to be applied after the default (or user-specified) printer options?  If so, what kind of small changes might they be?


The small change is basically to add some DSC comments, e.g.


    %%BeginSetup
    %%BeginFeature: *Foo Bar
    your setpagedevice code
    %%EndFeature
    %%EndSetup

This should appear before the first %%Page: comment in your file.

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Michael Sweet, Senior Printing System Engineer, PWG Chair




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