Technical Memo: TRAY SELECTION ON THE HP LaserJet 5siMX AND THE QMS PS 2425





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TRAY SELECTION ON THE HP LaserJet 5siMX AND THE QMS PS 2425

Revised: 12-Aug-2002

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Abstract

Paper tray selection can be set up in both ScriptServer® products to pull paper from a specific tray for the print file as well as separate trays for the flag and trailer pages. To control the trays, you need to know the number corresponding to each tray. The following table contains the tray numbering information:

Printer and Language	MP Tray	Upper Tray	Lower Tray
QMS PS 2425
PostScript	0 or 1	2	3
PCL	2 or 3	1	4
HPLJ 5siMX
PostScript	3	0	1 or 2
PCL	2 or 3	0 or 1	4

Some printers may also allow you to select trays based on media types if those are properly defined.

ScriptServer® PAN Printing System

The corresponding PostScript or PCL fragments should be defined as resources. See also:

ScriptServer® for OpenVMS

We can use logicals to control the print job paper source and the flag and trailer pages paper source. The logicals are used in the examples below, and further information can be obtained from Chapters 7 and 25 of the ScriptServer Printing System User Guide, V5.0, January 1996 or later. Please note that the flag/trailer page logicals used in the examples are specific to either PostScript or PCL files:

PostScript	`SSV$`queue`_FLAG_TRAY_COMMAND`
PCL	`SSV$`queue`_PCL_FLAG_COMMAND`

Example 1

To print a PostScript file (or a text file translated into Postscript) on the paper in the upper tray and select the flag and trailer pages from the lower tray, define the following logicals (assuming the printers are on LAT ports):

HP5siMX

$ DEFINE/SYSTEM SSV$LTA9997_TRAY_LETTERTRAY "0 setpapertray"

$ DEFINE/SYSTEM SSV$HPQUEUE_FLAG_TRAY_COMMAND "1 setpapertray"

QMS 2425

$ DEFINE/SYSTEM SSV$LTA9998_TRAY_LETTERTRAY "2 setpapertray"

$ DEFINE/SYSTEM SSV$QMSQUEUE_FLAG_TRAY_COMMAND "3 setpapertray"

Example 2

To print a PCL file using the printer's default paper tray and select the flag and trailer pages that are legal size from the multipurpose tray, define the following logical:

HP5siMX or QMS 2425

$ DEFINE/SYSTEM SSV$PCLQUEUE_PCL_FLAG_COMMAND "<ESC>&l2H<ESC>&l3A"

Note: ScriptServer logicals can be placed in the configuration file SCRIPTSERVER:SSV$CONFIG.SSV instead of defining them in the SYSTEM table.