Path: utzoo!utgpu!watmath!maytag!watdcsu!psych
From: psych@watdcsu.waterloo.edu (R.Crispin - Psychology)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac
Subject: NEC LC890 - selecting the paper tray
Keywords: NEC LC890 PAPER TRAY
Message-ID: <5964@watdcsu.waterloo.edu>
Date: 1 Jun 89 20:14:11 GMT
Reply-To: psych@watdcsu.waterloo.edu (R.Crispin - Psychology)
Organization: U. of Waterloo, Ontario
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A while back I asked if anyone had a print driver for the Mac that
would let you pick the paper tray on the NEC LC890 so we could do
letterhead from the first tray and bond from the rear tray. I received
no replies other than from those who also wanted to do it.

Today a work around dawned on me. I tried the following and it works.
We are using Word 4.0 but this will work with Word 3.x and any other
processor that allows variable headers and postscript code.
I formatted a letter by selecting First Page Special from the Section
menu. Then I set the very first line in the First Page Header to be
"statusdict begin 2 setpapertray end" followed by a return. I then set
this style to be PostScript as described in the manual. I closed this header
and opened the regular header and put this as the first line
"statusdict begin 1 setpapaertray end" followed by a return and what I wanted
for the header. I set the style of the first line to be PostScript as
described in the manual. I then made this file a read only template file.
Low and behold it works. The first page prints from the front bin and all
the rest print from the backbin.
The most important thing seems to be that the commands must appear before any
printable text from the current page.

I hope this gets to all who asked for info.

Richard Crispin
Dept. of Psychology             Bitnet: psych@watdcs 
University of Waterloo          Unix  : psych@watdcsu.UWaterloo.ca 
Waterloo, Ont.   Canada   N2L 3G1
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