Re: Paper tray selection at device level

My suggestion to investigate the *WSCST for a possible resolution should not be inferred to be the best nor the only available option. Hopefully others will offer their own recommendations. To be clear, I am far from an expert in printers... I have long employed every means available to avoid printing, and attempt to utilize only plain-text minimal quality [without separator pages] when printing is mandatory.

Since mention was made of remote output queue, consider that CHGOUTQ can assign a WSCST. Multiple queues couldd be setup, each with its own preference to which the user directs from the menu option.?

Regards, Chuck

On 4/6/11 7:12 AM, jmmckee wrote:

CRPence on Wed, 06 Apr 2011 09:03:47 -0500 wrote:

On 4/6/11 6:30 AM, jmmckee wrote:

New printer was installed yesterday. I have no idea, yet, if it
was set up correctly. The letterhead tray is priority 1 and plain
paper is priority 2. So, output from the i is on letterhead.
Currently, this is set up as a remote output queue. But, even as
a device, I don't see a method to force selection of a specific
tray. Is there one and I am missing it? OVRPRTF and CHGPRTF won't
work here. User is selecting a menu option and the menu initiates
many functions, which might be sent to different printers.

I did offer that the tray priority might not be set correctly.

Possibly a *WSCST object; perhaps the following for a web search
will assist: "workstation customization object" drawer printer

IBM technical documents may provide specifics for brand\model;
i.e. the search might be narrowed with that information.

Kind of what I expected. My gut reaction is it would be easier (and
more consistent given other installed printers) to just change the
tray priority. I was secretly hoping there was an option I had
missed.