Technical Memo: PAPER SIZE SELECTION FOR PRINTERS WITH ONE TRAY

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PAPER SIZE SELECTION FOR PRINTERS WITH ONE TRAY

To select the appropriate paper size (and graphics state) on a printer with one tray, you may need to define a system-wide logical before starting a ScriptServer for OpenVMS queue. Assuming that you wanted to be able to print on either legal or letter sized paper, you would define the following:

$ DEFINE/SYSTEM SSV$device_TRAY_LEGALTRAY  "legal"
$ DEFINE/SYSTEM SSV$device_TRAY100_LETTERTRAY  "letter"

If you are using VMS characteristics at your site, you will notice that the queue will have the characteristics for BOTH legal and letter paper (usually 10 and 11). Now you should be able to print from the Script facility(or use the PRINT/PARAM command) and specify either letter or legal paper size.

NOTE: The default paper size is "letter." Also, if you selected letter as the paper size while legal paper was in the tray, you would notice a "letter-sized" image on the legal paper, but would probably not get any error messages.