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Red Hat Printing Tray Definition
We have an application running on RedHat rhel5 that requires some significant volumes of printing to Ricoh (MP4000, b/w) Multifunction Devices with 4 trays, for different stationery types.
Trays 1-4
1. A4 Plain
2. A4 Bill
3. A4 Survey
4. A4 Letterhead
We are using CUPS with Ricoh Aficio MP 4000 PXL printer drivers. On submitting the job – e.g.
Examples:
#>more <filename> | lp –d<printername> -oInputSlot=3Tray
#> lp –d<printername> -oInputSlot=4Tray <filename>
<printername> = “3rd_Floor” or “dept” (as per CUPS reference)
The result of this is correct text but paper sucked from tray 1 (plain) when should be tray X (as specified )…………..
The Live environment works perfectly, so can discount printer, database engine, and..
..Main s/w Application is not at fault as these test are performed outside of it using Putty/terminal with same – negative – results
ppd (printer defs) files are exactly same on each environment too
Trays 1-4
1. A4 Plain
2. A4 Bill
3. A4 Survey
4. A4 Letterhead
We are using CUPS with Ricoh Aficio MP 4000 PXL printer drivers. On submitting the job – e.g.
Examples:
#>more <filename> | lp –d<printername> -oInputSlot=3Tray
#> lp –d<printername> -oInputSlot=4Tray <filename>
<printername> = “3rd_Floor” or “dept” (as per CUPS reference)
The result of this is correct text but paper sucked from tray 1 (plain) when should be tray X (as specified )…………..
The Live environment works perfectly, so can discount printer, database engine, and..
..Main s/w Application is not at fault as these test are performed outside of it using Putty/terminal with same – negative – results
ppd (printer defs) files are exactly same on each environment too
ASKER
Thanks - yes. We have specified the media type on the MFD itself. We have our Live Redhat box which detects correct stationery and prints jobs correctly. Our Test server printing to the same MFD, the same print job does not. On the face of it both servers have the same settings defined for the printer, but there must be another setting buried somewhere?
Check that they are both running the same version of LPD.
Not all support -o and will just ignore it.
And I think that there should be a space after the -o as in:
-o InputSlot=4Tray <filename>
Not all support -o and will just ignore it.
And I think that there should be a space after the -o as in:
-o InputSlot=4Tray <filename>
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If so, you will also need to specify it when printing or it will default to the plain paper tray.