ITEM: BE3714L

Duplex printing to HP 5Si at AIX 4.1.4

ENV:
        AIX 4.1.4
        Unknown machine model
        HP 5Si printer
DESC:
        Is there a virtual printer predef file for the HP 5Si ?
        How can I properly colate the printer output so that the
        correct output paper bin is used to stack my paper as
        desired?  How can I print PostScript and PCL to a single
        virtual printer queue?
ACT:
        There is no predef file for the 5Si but you can define the 
        printer as a LaserJet IV without much loss of functionality.

        You were concerned that you could not duplex print with
        the LaserJet IV driver.

        Set the virtual printer _Y=1 for duplex output and sent a print
        job.

        Customer now has the printer working and the print is
        duplexing by settings the _Y attribyte to _Y=1 but now
        the print is not quite as desired... The pages are not
        being properly colated...

        1st sheet of paper prints with page 1 up and page 2 down.
        2nd sheet of paper prints with page 3 up and page 4 down.

        Now when you look at this printout, the pages appear in the
        order 3,4,1,2.  The pages need to be turned over one more
        time before the printer ejects them so that they lay in the
        order "4,3,2,1" so that the document doesn't need to be
        manually colated after printing.

        The way to do this is to sent the printer a PCL command to
        select the correct output bin.  Inserted at the end of the
        virtual printer ci attribute:

        '\\33&l1G'

        This worked fine.  You wanted to know how to do this same
        thing for PostScript virtual printers.

        Change the _pL attribute to read as follows:

    '@ PJL SET OUTBIN = UPPER\\012@PJL ENTER LANGUAGE = Postscript\\012'

        This is the PJL command to select the upper output bin.

        You also want to know if you can create one queue to which
        you can print both PCL and PostScript data.

        You can do this by changing the following virtual printer
        attributes:

mi=a,s          This gives ascii and postscript
mp=,%%!         This says anything but %! start will yield ascii, %!=PS
_d=%Imi         Get the print data stream from the mi attribute.

Other alternatives are to use a postscript queue and print with
a 'qprt -da ...' command to get ascii to a postscript queue.



Support Line: Duplex printing to HP 5Si at AIX 4.1.4 ITEM: BE3714L

Dated: January 1996 Category: N/A

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