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  3. October 2005

Epson DFX 8500

Hi all,

I've got a customer with an Epson DFX 8500 installed.  Though this
printer is a dot-matrix type printer, it can be loaded with two types of
paper.   One in each 'form tractor'.

Customer is asking me to send spools to the printer and have it
automatically select the proper form tractor.

According to the archives and IBM, the MFRTYPMDL to use for this device
is *EPDFX8000.  I did a RTVWSCST and didn't see any special bits for
selecting the proper 'bin', 'drawer' or 'tractor'.

Has anyone managed to make such a printer select the proper form
tractor?  If so, how?

Thank you.

Regards,
Rich

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