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Print Mapping
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There must be a method to map to a printer’s tray. Googling this concept yield no results. In our small company we have an HP 2550. The shipping department, by printer’s default, prints out their invoices (pre printed form) from Tray 3. Accounting wants to use this printer, and print out their documents using blank paper, from Tray 2. I need to keep everyone separated so that the departments are using only assigned Trays. Shipping, Tray 3, invoices. Accounting, Tray 2, blank paper. I would need to go to the workstations and “add” a mapped printer. That way the users could choose, by mapping, the Tray assignments. I’m thinking that when one elects to add a printer the choices would be for the HP 2550: ADD 192.169.254.131 Tray 2 ADD 192.169.254.131 Tray 3 I don’t know how to do this. Is it possible to map to a specific tray? Thanks for any advice on how to setup a printer to print out to a specfic tray via mapping. John Marshall |
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Parvardigar wrote:
Hello There must be a method to map to a printer’s tray. Googling this concept yield no results. In our small company we have an HP 2550. The shipping department, by printer’s default, prints out their invoices (pre printed form) from Tray 3. Accounting wants to use this printer, and print out their documents using blank paper, from Tray 2. I need to keep everyone separated so that the departments are using only assigned Trays. Shipping, Tray 3, invoices. Accounting, Tray 2, blank paper. I would need to go to the workstations and “add” a mapped printer. That way the users could choose, by mapping, the Tray assignments. I’m thinking that when one elects to add a printer the choices would be for the HP 2550: ADD 192.169.254.131 Tray 2 ADD 192.169.254.131 Tray 3 I don’t know how to do this. Is it possible to map to a specific tray? Thanks for any advice on how to setup a printer to print out to a specfic tray via mapping. John Marshall It's been a long time since I did something like this, but it seems to me that the "map" command is the wrong approach. The selection of which tray to print from is done by the printer's driver. IIRC, the way to do this is to configure the printer to use a different default paper source on the different computers. For example, on all of Accounting's computers, set the default paper source to Tray 2. Selecting the tray to print from also can be done using macros, at least if the application used to print (e.g., Word) supports macros. One issue that you'll have to investigate using hp's resources is what happens when the default tray is empty. Many of the printers that I used to work with would automatically switch to another paper source of the default source was empty. -- Lem -- MS-MVP To the moon and back with 2K words of RAM and 36K words of ROM. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apollo_Guidance_Computer http://history.nasa.gov/afj/compessay.htm |
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On Apr 17, 3:57*pm, Lem lemp40@unknownhost wrote:
Parvardigar wrote: Hello There must be a method to map to a printer’s tray. Googling this concept yield no results. In our small company we have an HP 2550. The shipping department, by printer’s default, prints out their invoices (pre printed form) from Tray 3. Accounting wants to use this printer, and print out their documents using blank paper, from Tray 2. I need to keep everyone separated so that the departments are using only assigned Trays. Shipping, Tray 3, invoices. Accounting, Tray 2, blank paper. I would need to go to the workstations and “add” a mapped printer. That way the users could choose, by mapping, the Tray assignments. I’m thinking that when one elects to add a printer the choices would be for the HP 2550: ADD 192.169.254.131 Tray 2 ADD 192.169.254.131 Tray 3 I don’t know how to do this. Is it possible to map to a specific tray? Thanks for any advice on how to setup a printer to print out to a specfic tray via mapping. John Marshall It's been a long time since I did something like this, but it seems to me that the "map" command is the wrong approach. The selection of which tray to print from is done by the printer's driver. IIRC, the way to do this is to configure the printer to use a different default paper source on the different computers. *For example, on all of Accounting's computers, set the default paper source to Tray 2. Selecting the tray to print from also can be done using macros, at least if the application used to print (e.g., Word) supports macros. One issue that you'll have to investigate using hp's resources is what happens when the default tray is empty. *Many of the printers that I used to work with would automatically switch to another paper source of the default source was empty. -- Lem -- MS-MVP To the moon and back with 2K words of RAM and 36K words of ROM.http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apollo_...compessay.htm- Hide quoted text - - Show quoted text - I did write to HP. The instructions were outlined as you suggested. Using their method (non mapping) I did have failures. We have a LAN. The printer is 'added' from the Server, the Print Server. Thus at the workstation one can add printers. And if one elects, for example, the HP21015 as the Default printer the printer will except print jobs, and print accordingly. I say this because each workstation with the HP 2015 can be configured. The shipping department - when they send a print job out to the HP2015 their print jobs go out to Invoice Paper, Tray 3. At an accounting workstation I added the HP 2015. In devices settings I changed Tray 3 from 'installed' to 'Not Installed' . Any reference to Tray 3 I removed, altered, - as 'not installed'. In theory the shipping department because they have in device settings Tray 3 configured to 'installed' that's where the print job spools ; (but I can't explain why it would spool to Tray 3 instead of Tray 2- that I don't understand) and for the accountant workstation ; because all references to Tray 3 is "Not Installed' they should be able to print to only Tray 2. I sent out the print job from the accountant's work station and it printed out to Tray 3. Another way of stating this: the shipping folks have Tray 1,2,3, configured and their print jobs, by 'default?' go to Tray 3. The accounting folks have Tray 1,2 configured and their print jobs are spooled out to Tray 3. Thanks for any attentions to this print tray issue. John Marshall |
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Parvardigar wrote:
On Apr 17, 3:57 pm, Lem lemp40@unknownhost wrote: Parvardigar wrote: Hello There must be a method to map to a printer’s tray. Googling this concept yield no results. In our small company we have an HP 2550. The shipping department, by printer’s default, prints out their invoices (pre printed form) from Tray 3. Accounting wants to use this printer, and print out their documents using blank paper, from Tray 2. I need to keep everyone separated so that the departments are using only assigned Trays. Shipping, Tray 3, invoices. Accounting, Tray 2, blank paper. I would need to go to the workstations and “add” a mapped printer. That way the users could choose, by mapping, the Tray assignments. I’m thinking that when one elects to add a printer the choices would be for the HP 2550: ADD 192.169.254.131 Tray 2 ADD 192.169.254.131 Tray 3 I don’t know how to do this. Is it possible to map to a specific tray? Thanks for any advice on how to setup a printer to print out to a specfic tray via mapping. John Marshall It's been a long time since I did something like this, but it seems to me that the "map" command is the wrong approach. The selection of which tray to print from is done by the printer's driver. IIRC, the way to do this is to configure the printer to use a different default paper source on the different computers. For example, on all of Accounting's computers, set the default paper source to Tray 2. Selecting the tray to print from also can be done using macros, at least if the application used to print (e.g., Word) supports macros. One issue that you'll have to investigate using hp's resources is what happens when the default tray is empty. Many of the printers that I used to work with would automatically switch to another paper source of the default source was empty. -- Lem -- MS-MVP To the moon and back with 2K words of RAM and 36K words of ROM.http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apollo_...compessay.htm- Hide quoted text - - Show quoted text - I did write to HP. The instructions were outlined as you suggested. Using their method (non mapping) I did have failures. We have a LAN. The printer is 'added' from the Server, the Print Server. Thus at the workstation one can add printers. And if one elects, for example, the HP21015 as the Default printer the printer will except print jobs, and print accordingly. I say this because each workstation with the HP 2015 can be configured. The shipping department - when they send a print job out to the HP2015 their print jobs go out to Invoice Paper, Tray 3. At an accounting workstation I added the HP 2015. In devices settings I changed Tray 3 from 'installed' to 'Not Installed' . Any reference to Tray 3 I removed, altered, - as 'not installed'. In theory the shipping department because they have in device settings Tray 3 configured to 'installed' that's where the print job spools ; (but I can't explain why it would spool to Tray 3 instead of Tray 2- that I don't understand) and for the accountant workstation ; because all references to Tray 3 is "Not Installed' they should be able to print to only Tray 2. I sent out the print job from the accountant's work station and it printed out to Tray 3. Another way of stating this: the shipping folks have Tray 1,2,3, configured and their print jobs, by 'default?' go to Tray 3. The accounting folks have Tray 1,2 configured and their print jobs are spooled out to Tray 3. Thanks for any attentions to this print tray issue. John Marshall As I said, it was a long time ago, but it *was* in the context of an office where all of the printers were network printers connected to a print server. I think I remember a bit more, but I can't guarantee the following. There are two places to set things, the printer's device settings and the printer's advanced document settings. I can't remember if you need to set both, or if only one, which one. First, define a new form. HP makes the information on how to do this quite hard to find, but it's simple once you know how: In Printers and Faxes, - File Server Properties check the box to "Create a new form" - Give the new form a name and set the sizes appropriately, then "Save Form." Now, right click on the printer icon and select "Properties," then click on the "Device Settings" tab. You should see "Form to tray assignment." Set "Printer Autoselect" to the form you created and then assign the form to the appropriate tray. Now go to the "Printer Preferences" dialog and click the "Advanced" tab. Under "Paper output" select the new form you created. Finally, you may also have to ensure that the application used to print selects the appropriate form (paper size/type). Here's an excerpt from the manual for an HP LaserJet: HP Manual Print setting priorities There are three ways to change print settings for this printer: in the software application, in the printer driver, and in the HP toolbox. For the HP LaserJet 1300 series printer, you can also change print settings through the embedded Web server. Changes made to print settings are prioritized according to where the changes are made, as follows: Changes made in the software application override settings changed anywhere else. Within a software application, changes made in the Page Setup dialog box override changes made in the Print dialog box. Changes made in the printer driver (Printer Properties dialog box) override settings in the HP toolbox. Changes made in the printer driver do not override settings in the software application. Changes made in the HP toolbox and the embedded Web server have the lowest priority. If a particular print setting can be changed in more than one of the ways listed above, use the method that has the highest priority. /HP Manual -- Lem -- MS-MVP To the moon and back with 2K words of RAM and 36K words of ROM. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apollo_Guidance_Computer http://history.nasa.gov/afj/compessay.htm |
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