[comp.sys.mac.system] How to select trays on appletalk laser printer?

hal@world.std.com (Harry A Levinson) (06/19/91)

I have an NEC LC890 with two feed trays.  The printer provides a postscript
command for selecting which tray to use.  I have found a way to imbed
this command ina WS-WORD document, but would like to know if there is
a general way of doing this for any application short of catpuring
the postscript file editing and then re-subimtting it?

Our printer is on an Appletalk network.  Would ethertalk and tcp/ip and/or
NFS change or provide some such solution?

thanks
harry levinson
hal@world.std.com
 

dorner@pequod.cso.uiuc.edu (Steve Dorner) (06/20/91)

In article <1991Jun19.012421.11684@world.std.com> hal@world.std.com (Harry A Levinson) writes:
>I have an NEC LC890 with two feed trays.  The printer provides a postscript
>command for selecting which tray to use.
>Our printer is on an Appletalk network.

One way to do this would be to run CAP.  You could set up two separate
"printers" (eg "NEC-lower" and "NEC-upper"), and massage the postscript on
the UNIX machine to get the proper tray to be used.

(CAP is UNIX software for printing to/from appletalk networks, and filesharing,
and some other stuff.  It's free, but moves around.  If you ftp to
cunixc.cc.columbia.edu, you'll get a pointer to the current site.  You'll
need a FastPath/Gatorbox/Multigate or suchlike.)
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