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Split printer for different trays

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by sannhto

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Hi!

We had an old printer which was shown as two different printers for different paper trays (same port on print server, different share name). The ex-techguy had somehow fiddled with the drivers to get it to work, I think. Now we have replaced the old printer with an HP CLJ CP3505. My question is how can I do the same trick with this one?

Thanks!

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by p.j.hutchison

On the print server, Open the properties of the printer, click on Device Settings configure the paper sizes for each of the trays eg A4, A3 etc.
Then for the 'Printer Auto select', select the paper size you want to use automatically. Also set the paper size in the Printer Preferences (via General tab).

by jason_k

Install the print driver, but set up 2 print queues...then configure the tray configuration in each.
Then go into printer properties, select printing preferences, and select defaults you need...ie, paper size, media type etc...then click ok, then apply.

Repeat for each unique queue, and you are done. Just select the right queue when printing, and all your defaults will be there.

Just a note, quite often the printing defaults will not come down off the server if it is a shared printer. I still haven't found out why this is intermittent yet...anybody any ideas?

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