Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!pilchuck!ssc!fyl
From: fyl@ssc.UUCP (Phil Hughes)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.postscript
Subject: Re: Setting manual feed on a Laserwriter
Message-ID: <1642@ssc.UUCP>
Date: 13 Jan 89 00:17:49 GMT
References: <2976@uhccux.uhcc.hawaii.edu>
Organization: SSC, Inc., Seattle, WA
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In article <2976@uhccux.uhcc.hawaii.edu>, julian@uhccux.uhcc.hawaii.edu (Julian Cowley) writes:
> After successive attempts to print on both sides of a page on a
> Laserwriter using the manual feed, I can only conclude that it
> is done through software.  When I placed the paper at the manual
> feed input, the Laserwriter insisted on taking from the paper
> tray.  Since I don't know PostScript, could some kind person out
> there tell me what I need to tell the printer to get it to take
> the page?  

You need to tell the printer to select the maunal feed.  I can't
exactly explain where to put this but the required postscript is:
	statusdict /manualfeed true put
The remainder of the job will request manual feed.  Just guessing,
	statusdict /manualfeed false put
should put you back to tray feed but it will automatically go back
to tray feed at the end of the current job.

Hope this is a clue.

-- 
Phil Hughes, SSC, Inc. P.O. Box 55549, Seattle, WA 98155  (206)FOR-UNIX
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