Sending tray code to hp

[Jean-Pierre A. Radley]

John Sica propounded (on Tue, Mar 02, 2010 at 07:14:23AM -0700):
| I need to send a tray selection code to an HP printer for specific users 
| (determined by login account).  The printer name is already set in a 
| variable that filepro gets (GETENV) for PCs in this department, 
| determined by IP address. 
| 
| The login needs to be able to change this printer destination again so 
| that all jobs send the tray 2 code (which is not the default tray) 
| before the jobs print.  
| 
| Every print job sends an overlay to the printer, then prints the job.  
| Each job is 3 pages, and the overlay gets resent after each  page.  I 
| know sending the overlay every page is extra work, but everything prints 
| fast anyway.
| 
| My thought is to create a new printer who's interface program embeds the 
| tray 2 code (^[&l1H) , then have this new printer set in the environment 
| at login.
| 
| I don't know how to embed this code in the interface script, which now 
| all use netcat in the interface script (sco unix 5.05).
| 
| My other thought is to use the new filepro printer name  (which is the 
| same name as the unix printer name), to have the tray 3 code initialize 
| it.  I'm not sure how to do this either.
| 
| A suggestion either way would be appreciated.

What model script are you using?

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JP