From owner-freebsd-hackers Tue Sep 23 22:52:01 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) id WAA03532 for hackers-outgoing; Tue, 23 Sep 1997 22:52:01 -0700 (PDT) Received: from usr07.primenet.com (tlambert@usr07.primenet.com [206.165.6.207]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) with ESMTP id WAA03514 for ; Tue, 23 Sep 1997 22:51:58 -0700 (PDT) Received: (from tlambert@localhost) by usr07.primenet.com (8.8.5/8.8.5) id WAA03740; Tue, 23 Sep 1997 22:51:44 -0700 (MST) From: Terry Lambert Message-Id: <199709240551.WAA03740@usr07.primenet.com> Subject: Re: lpr/lpd and HP networked printers To: joe@pavilion.net (Josef Karthauser) Date: Wed, 24 Sep 1997 05:51:43 +0000 (GMT) Cc: dkelly@hiwaay.net, arg@arg1.demon.co.uk, hackers@FreeBSD.ORG In-Reply-To: <19970923212006.58866@pavilion.net> from "Josef Karthauser" at Sep 23, 97 09:20:06 pm X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4 PL23] Content-Type: text Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk > Talking of HP laserjets... has anyone had any success in configuring > a printcap to enable paper tray selection? A long time ago. I used a "banner page" that output a tray select; I also did a "banner page" that would do a "Postscript select" or an "HPGL select". We actually got rid of user selectable paper trays, and loaded yellow paper into one (the smaller) tray and white into the other. Then we selected the yellow tray, output a real banner, selected the white tray, and output the print job. So we ended up with a banner anyway (it was for a student lab, and it made seperating jobs into alphabetic bins easier for the lab aides). Anyway, lie about your banner, and define multiple printers that use different "banners" to reference the same physical printer. Regards, Terry Lambert terry@lambert.org --- Any opinions in this posting are my own and not those of my present or previous employers.