RE: WSCST object with HP5si problems -- MIDRANGE-L

Actually I still used my WSCST but changed the printer model to *HP5si
instead of *WSCST.

Bradley V. Stone        
bvstone@taylorcorp.com
http://prairie.lakes.com/~bvstone/
"People train don't run out of Wicheta... Lessn' you're a hog, or a
cattle.  People train runs out of Stubville."

> ----Original Message-----
> From: pault@praim.com [SMTP:pault@praim.com]
> Sent: Thursday, February 12, 1998 12:58 PM
> To:   'midrange-l@midrange.com'
> Subject:      RE: WSCST object with HP5si problems
> 
> Bradley Stone wrote to midrange-l:
> 
> It does work in all other aspects.  I have been playing around with
> sending PCL to it with the WSCST.  It still seems to always want to
> pull
> from the 11x17 even though I tell it in the escape codes that when the
> printer output is 10cpi to use letter.  Since I tried that it pulls
> 11x17 and formats the data to fit proportionally to the way it did
> on8.5x11 (right side and bottom have large blank areas.)
> 
> I guess I will have to call HP to get the printer codes and make sure
> I'm sending the right ones.  I haven't yet seen printer codes for the
> 11x17 tray in their documentation.
> 
> Bradley V. Stone      
> bvstone@taylorcorp.com
> http://prairie.lakes.com/~bvstone/
> 
> Dear Bradley,
> 
> The problem you have been seeing is caused by a feature of the HP PCL
> language. The PCL language includes a pyramid scheme for certain
> printer operations. The scheme describes the relative importance of
> certain HP PCL commands, as compared to others, which may be required
> for the execution of particular printer operation.
> 
> When changing input trays using PCL commands, the page size command is
> the most important command in the pyramid. Thus if different source
> drawers include different page sizes in a particular printer, your
> application needs to define the page size being requested as well as
> the target input tray. When both commands are used by an application
> the printer will change from the currently active input tray to the
> one which is being requested.
> 
> Typically the problem you have described is seen most often with
> printer's that include an envelope feeder. Everything is working fine
> until you print an envelope. Once you have made the envelope feeder
> active, you are unable to leave because the application is requesting
> another tray without specifying the paper size the printer should use.
> It knows that an envelope paper size is currently active and that tray
> 1 has for example LETTER paper in it. It checks the tray requested by
> the application, finds that the requested tray does not have envelopes
> in it, and therefore prints the job being received on envelope stock.
> The same thought process is occurring in your HP5si regarding trays
> with Letter and Ledger paper in them.
> 
> I saw your follow-up post that changing the Workstation Customization
> Object to an HP selection solved your tray selection problem. This is
> most likely because the HP WSCST includes paper size information as
> part of its construction.
> 
> HTH
> 
> /Paul
> --
> Paul Tykodi, Technical Director                       E-mail:
> pault@praim.com
> Praim Inc.                                         Tel: 603-431-0606
> 140 Congress St., #2                              Fax: 603-436-6432
> Portsmouth, NH  03801-4019
> 
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