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From: dorner@pequod.cso.uiuc.edu (Steve Dorner)
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Subject: Re: How to select trays on appletalk laser printer?
Message-ID: <1991Jun19.172313.26491@ux1.cso.uiuc.edu>
Date: 19 Jun 91 17:23:13 GMT
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In article <1991Jun19.012421.11684@world.std.com> hal@world.std.com (Harry A Levinson) writes:
>I have an NEC LC890 with two feed trays.  The printer provides a postscript
>command for selecting which tray to use.
>Our printer is on an Appletalk network.

One way to do this would be to run CAP.  You could set up two separate
"printers" (eg "NEC-lower" and "NEC-upper"), and massage the postscript on
the UNIX machine to get the proper tray to be used.

(CAP is UNIX software for printing to/from appletalk networks, and filesharing,
and some other stuff.  It's free, but moves around.  If you ftp to
cunixc.cc.columbia.edu, you'll get a pointer to the current site.  You'll
need a FastPath/Gatorbox/Multigate or suchlike.)
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Steve Dorner, U of Illinois Computing Services Office
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