RE: WSCST object with HP5si problems

[<BVStone@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

It does work in all other aspects.  I have been playing around with
sending PCL to it with the WSCST.  It still seems to always want to pull
from the 11x17 even though I tell it in the escape codes that when the
printer output is 10cpi to use letter.  Since I tried that it pulls
11x17 and formats the data to fit proportionally to the way it did
on8.5x11 (right side and bottom have large blank areas.)

I guess I will have to call HP to get the printer codes and make sure
I'm sending the right ones.  I haven't yet seen printer codes for the
11x17 tray in their documentation.

Bradley V. Stone        
bvstone@taylorcorp.com
http://prairie.lakes.com/~bvstone/
"Don't forget that tangy zip, that mmmm... miricle whip.... don't skip
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        ----Original Message-----
        From:   Peter Coffin [SMTP:phcoffin@us.ibm.com]
        Sent:   Wednesday, February 11, 1998 9:01 AM
        To:     MIDRANGE-L@midrange.com
        Subject:        Re: WSCST object with HP5si problems

        Bradley writes:

        > The problem is no matter what I change or don't change in the
        > Workstation Customization object, it always seems to want to
pull from
        > tray 3 which is an 11x17 paper source.  Even if I copy the
WSCST object
        > as HP5si (which it was set up as) and not make any changes, it
still
        > grabs the paper from tray 3.  If I don't specify a WSCST
object and
        > printer as *HP5si, it grabs from the right tray (8.5x11) but
it doesn't
        > fill the whole page, which brings me back to the root of the
problem.

        Try hooking the printer to another machine (like a PC) and see
if you
        can print from another tray. I had a devil of a time with a
second hand
        4029 until I realized that it wasn't being wrongly told to feed
only from
        the top tray, but rather than the feed roller in the bottom was
too worn
        to reliably pick up a sheet and the printer was giving up and
trying
        the other tray in desperation. If you can get it to work
properly off a
        PC, then try it again on the AS/400 (without turning the printer
off,
        if possible, to avoid resetting the thing if the PC driver
rearranged
        some settings).

        Peter H. Coffin
        phcoffin@us.ibm.com
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