janes@mundoe.maths.mu.OZ.AU (Jane Shilling RBA5 7278) (03/27/91)
We have a 4019 printer with the optional 500-sheet second paper tray. It is set up as a PostScript printer attached to an x-station120 whose host is a RISC 6000/530 running AIX3.1 (3002). However I have not yet been able to get it to actually use the second tray. Has anyone been able to do this? I have tried a number of things. These include, physically switching the printer to tray 2 - however when a job is sent for printing it automatically switches back to tray 1. I've tried using qprt -u2 to specify the 2nd tray, but this causes the buffer light to flash but nothing to come out. Any suggestions of how to fix this would be appreciated. Thanks, Jane Shilling Maths Dept, Melbourne University
gark@iscp.Bellcore.COM (Mark Gallion x8386) (03/27/91)
To get a 4019 printer to use the second (500 sheet) paper tray
you need to change the default _u variable setting for the
virtual printer. This variable is changed in the "Manage
Virtual Printers" portion of SMIT. This attribute sets
the paper source drawer with the following description provided
courtesy of SMIT:
Name Description Value
_u Paper Source Drawer (1: Lower 2: Upper or no 1
sheet feeder 3: Envelopes)
This method will not allow making use of BOTH drawers when the
lower becomes empty. It looks as if that is not possible as yet.
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Mark S. Gallion
Bell Communications Research
Piscataway, NJ
gark@bcr.bellcore.com