From owner-freebsd-questions Fri May 18 1:26:35 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from guru.mired.org (okc-65-26-235-186.mmcable.com [65.26.235.186]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 2B8A437B424 for ; Fri, 18 May 2001 01:26:31 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from mwm@mired.org) Received: (qmail 34285 invoked by uid 100); 18 May 2001 08:26:24 -0000 From: Mike Meyer MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-ID: <15108.56496.292008.847156@guru.mired.org> Date: Fri, 18 May 2001 03:26:24 -0500 To: "Ted Mittelstaedt" Cc: "Micke Josefsson" , Subject: RE: Laserjet Tray selection? In-Reply-To: <005101c0df6e$fd87b5a0$1401a8c0@tedm.placo.com> References: <15108.29002.131580.78949@guru.mired.org> <005101c0df6e$fd87b5a0$1401a8c0@tedm.placo.com> X-Mailer: VM 6.90 under 21.1 (patch 14) "Cuyahoga Valley" XEmacs Lucid X-face: "5Mnwy%?j>IIV\)A=):rjWL~NB2aH[}Yq8Z=u~vJ`"(,&SiLvbbz2W`;h9L,Yg`+vb1>RG% *h+%X^n0EZd>TM8_IB;a8F?(Fb"lw'IgCoyM.[Lg#r\ Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Ted Mittelstaedt types: > I think that what Mike is trying to say is that if you were > to go to the HP website and call up a document titled > "HP LaserJet printers - PCL Commands, Basic Page Formatting, and Font > Selection" That's one of the pages I was referring to. I believe there's also a PJL version of the document if your printer supports PJL, though I've never used it. > Also, of course, this only works in PCL mode, if you transmit a Postscript > job then > these filters won't do anything (or could cause problems). For example, > printing > from Netscape running under X windows, you get Postscript code from that > application. > This is only going to be useful for text jobs sent to the printer. All the tray and paper facilities available from PostScript as well, and are the ones I use. Adobed added standard functions for these things in later revisions of PostScript, so an HP postscript printer will either use the standard method, or HP's proprietary extensions if the printer's postscript predates the addition of the extensions. Again, HP's support site has pages that describe both sets of functions. http://www.mired.org/home/mwm/ Independent WWW/Perforce/FreeBSD/Unix consultant, email for more information. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message