topic Re: Printing to a specific tray? in Operating System - HP-UX

Printing to a specific tray?

AIMC — Wed, 13 Jul 2005 07:41:44 GMT

Hi,

For all you printing experts!

A colleague has a customer running HPUX who want to use tray 2 (this is the headed paper tray) on their printer every time the line "1BE" is at the top of a page to be printed. The default tray is tray 4. This is probably straight forward but my printing experience is zero!

Regards,

Aidan

Re: Printing to a specific tray?

Pete Randall — Wed, 13 Jul 2005 07:50:07 GMT

lp -obin#

Pete

Re: Printing to a specific tray?

Gavin Clarke — Wed, 13 Jul 2005 09:05:32 GMT

This script is my attempt to pick up the 1BE part of your question. There are probably better ways to do this.

It is run with two arguments: lp1BE -dprinter filename

TOPLINE=`head -1 $2`
if [ "$TOPLINE" = "1BE" ]
then
lp -obin2 $1 $2
else
lp $1 $2
fi

Cheers

Re: Printing to a specific tray?

AIMC — Wed, 13 Jul 2005 09:31:58 GMT

Hi,

Thanks Pete & Gavin,

The lp -d -obin# seems to work for some files but not others, there are some PCL commands? attached to the top of files to be printed so i think they may have to look at this before anything else.

Aidan

Re: Printing to a specific tray?

Gavin Clarke — Thu, 14 Jul 2005 01:06:57 GMT

Could you attach an example of one that doesn't work please?
Just so people can look and suggest options.

I'm thinking perhaps sed might be able to do something here.

Re: Printing to a specific tray?

Procnus — Thu, 14 Jul 2005 13:38:38 GMT

This is just off the top of my head, and I haven't tested it:

cat | \
sed s/1BE/^]&l5G\
1BE/ | lp -d

The replace is with an Escape&l5G (Ctrl-V Esc & ell 5 G)

I hope this helps and I haven't confused you.

Cheers
Steven