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November 7, 2001 at 08:52 AM
curious_george

Unix PS Printing to NT Server Queues

by curious_george . Updated 24 years, 3 months ago

Server OS: NT4 or W2K
Print Driver: HP CLJ4500DN Postscript
Server Name: PS1
Queue Name: PS-Trans
Tray 1: Manual Feed (disabled in driver config)
Tray 2: Transparencies
Tray 3: Letter (disabled in driver config)

Document Default settings inprint queue all point to Tray 2(transparencies), so do all device driver settings. Tray 1 & 3 medias are disabled.

Trying to get Unix clients to use a MS-based server for printing transparencies. They create a remote print queue on their Unix workstation, pointing to Server: PS1 Printer: PS-Trans.

ASCII print jobs come out on transparency media, like they should, but PostScript print jobs come out on plain paper from Tray 3! It appears that the PS file passes through the queue to the default tray on the printer not to the tray selected by the driver. Changing the default tray on the printer itself is not an option.

All NT clients printing to that queue generate Transparencies by default.

Any ideas how to get Unix PS print jobsto come out on transparency media in Tray 2 using the NT server queue?

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