Path: utzoo!attcan!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!natinst!rpp386!woody From: woody@rpp386.cactus.org (Woodrow Baker) Newsgroups: comp.lang.postscript Subject: Re: Paper size selection Summary: papersize. Message-ID: <17413@rpp386.cactus.org> Date: 7 Dec 89 13:21:02 GMT References: Distribution: comp Organization: River Parishes Programming, Plano, TX Lines: 29 In article , schell@llandru.ucdavis.edu (Stephan Schell) writes: > > I would like to print on legal size (8.5x14) paper from the manual feed > slot on an Apple LaserWriter NTX. The printer is connected to the serial > port on a Sun 3. When my print job starts, the printer accepts the paper > I offer it and prints only the first 11 inches worth. At that point, > the paper stops advancing through the printer, and the printer complains of > a paper jam. I have access to the postscript file that is sent. Am > I supposed to insert some magic code in the statusdict telling the printer > to assume the legal paper size? Please help me. > > Thanks in advance, > Stephan Schell > Dept. of Electrical Engineering & Computer Science > Univ. of California, Davis > schell@iris.ucdavis.edu > ...ucbvax!ucdavis!iris!schell There is a command called papertray. Look in the suppliment for your laserprinter. It is generaly found in the back of the manuage. There is generaly a command called legal or letter that sets the imageable size of the paper. by sending the command legal, the printer will image on a legal piece of paper. Settray is diffrent on diffrent printers, but in general it selects a paper try of a given size. Again, you will have to look in the suppliment section of the manual for your particular printer. Cheers Woody