RE: Copier printing -- MIDRANGE-L

Thanks Simon and everyone else for the replies.  Between your input and
doing a little reading from the Workstation Customization Programming
manual I've decided that I'm just a grain of sand on the beach of printer
options.  What's really amazing is that I took what you (Simon) had said,
combined it with a little that I had read in the WCP manual, AND IT WORKED
THE FIRST TIME!!!  Well, almost...  I can now change the default to drawer
2 and could probably do it for drawer 3 if I had the correct codes and I've
sent an e-mail to the "copier guy" to see if I can get those.  I might also
be able to turn up something with a Web search.

I just added the following to the retrieved source, did a CRTWSCST, and
presto!

:DWRNBR
VAROFFSET = 0
VARLEN = 0
VARTYPE = CHRHEX
DATA = ASCII control sequence from the retrieved source.

Thanks.  You guys rock!

Dave

Dave Parnin
Nishikawa Standard Company
Topeka, IN  46571
daparnin@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx





                                                                                
                              
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Hello David,

You will have to find out the PCL incantations that select the paper trays.
This
may be the same as standard HP but is often different. Once you have that
information then retrieve the source for the *HP6 WSCST object (presuming
the
'copier service guy' is correct). Then edit that source and locate the
:DRAWER
tag and change the incantation for drawer 1 to be whatever selects the bulk
paper tray. Save the source, compile it using the CRTWSCST command, and
specify
the new WSCST object on the WSCST keyword of the definition.

Since specifying drawer 3 on the spooled file selects the correct drawer
you
could simply swap the incantations for drawers 1 and 3 in the WSCST source.

If the printer supports SNMP or PJL (commonly called port9100 support) then
you
will get better control by defining it as a *LAN printer rather than as a
remoute output queue.

Regards,
Simon Coulter.
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