Sending tray code to hp

[Jean-Pierre A. Radley]

John Sica propounded (on Tue, Mar 02, 2010 at 12:49:03PM -0700):
| I use the hp printer manager program to install the printer and choose
| the HPLaserjet model.  I then copy the netcat script over script in
| ../interfaces that starts something like the small paste below.
| ======================
| #!/bin/sh
| YOUR_PRINTER_OR_IP="192.168.0.90"
| PORT=9100
| #
| #       @(#) hpnp.model 62.2 97/03/03
| #
| ======================
| and contains these lines somewhere in the middle of the script
| =======================
| PERIPH=
| if [ "$PERIPH" = "" ]
| then
|         PERIPH=$MODEL
| fi
| LOG=/tmp/$PERIPH.$$
| HPNPF=/usr/bin/netcat
| LPLOG=/tmp/hpnpf.$$
| LOGTRIES=5
| 
| echo "$1\t$REALMODEL | $HPNPF -x $PERIPH" >> $LPLOG
| ========================
| I assume this uses the model chosen which now resides in ../model.orig
| 
| I started using netcat several years ago to solve problems that I
| couldn't fix by just removing and installing the same printer with the
| hp printer manager program.
| 
| Netcat almost always works, except printing long files over the internet.

I dont a copy of that version of the script to see for myself, but
if you have some lines like these in that file:

	# Set up printer default modes -- Assume PCL mode on entry
	echo "\033E\c"          # Reset Printer
	echo "\033)0B\c"        # Secondary character set line draw
	echo "\033&k2G\c"       # Set line termination mode.

Than add one more for tray selection:
	
	echo "\033*l1H\c"	# Set paper source from lower tray

N.B: I don't mean to modify the model script -- edit its copy in the
interfaces directory.

OTOH, read the script and see if it already contains an lb or lbin
option to do that tray selection; in that case, you could leave
the interface script alone, but define a printer in filePro which
incorporates that option.

-- 
JP