[41766] in Hotline Meeting
Re: information about w91-230-5si
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Matt Braun)
Thu Feb 5 21:24:22 1998
Date: Thu, 5 Feb 1998 21:24:12 -0500 (EST)
To: "Roger A. Roach" <rar@MIT.EDU>
Cc: Matt Braun <matt@MIT.EDU>, "Roger A. Roach" <rar@MIT.EDU>, hesreq@MIT.EDU,
hotline@MIT.EDU, larugsi@MIT.EDU
In-Reply-To: "[3859] in hesiod requests"
From: Matt Braun <matt@MIT.EDU>
>1. The problem with the output appearing on the back of the header
>page is fixed. It turned out that the printer had duplex printing
>turned on from the control panel. Setting it off on the control panel
>and using "lpr2 -d" did the trick.
That makes things make sense.
>Finding lpr2 was not easy. Why is that not
>installed in the normal libraries?
lpr2 is one of those quasi-supported things. It edits the postscript on the
clients side to specify duplexing. The supported way to duplex to HP's is to
have a duplex print queue set up (name convention is printername2). I had
partially set up the duplex queue for w91-230-5si, and as of tonight's update
it should be all set (my oversight). Try printing to w91-230-5si2 and see if
that works without the error.
>2. Jerry Burke has been helping us with the tray selection problem.
>I've found that if I setup the paper the way I would like (8.5x11 in
>tray 2, legal in tray 3) and open tray 3 while I power cycle the
>printer, the printer will default to taking out from tray 2. If tray
>3 is closed when I power cycle the printer, tray 3 is used for the
>default input tray. Jerry is talking to HP about this and seeing what
>should be done and what we should do about this.
This does sound like an HP bug to me.
>This is really a LOW priority problem, but things like this bug me.
>It doesn't mean anyone has to spend any real time on this unless we
>start to try to provide this service to our users.
Well...we do provide this service to our users, and in all the cases I know
about it just works (there are some bugs, but I have never seen this much
trouble setting it up before). Athena cluster machines all have duplexing
and duplexing queues and in most cases it works fine
