system overrides printer defaults?
system overrides printer defaults?
- Subject: system overrides printer defaults?
- From: Semyon Tsynkov <email@hidden>
- Date: Sat, 02 Oct 2004 10:47:51 -0400
- Organization: NCSU
Dear List Users:
I have recently got a new G5 with OS X 10.3.5, and I am using my older HP
LaseJet 2100TN with this machine via an Ethernet connection. The printer
has PostScript level 2, and most often I would simply lpr - this is what
I have been doing for years on many UNIX platforms and with different
PostScrit printers, including this model as well. Now I have a weird
problem -- the system seems to override the printer defaults for paper
tray selection. The printer has three trays, and normaly if there is
paper in the upper manual tray it would feed from there, otherwise it
will try the lowest tray, and then the middle tray. And this is exactly
what it does when I print from my previous computer -- a DEC Alpha --
that sits on the same network. However, with the G5 it always feeds
paper from the middle tray, no matter what, even when the option Tray 3
is checked in the Installable Options dialog. The only way around seems
to be to print from applications, such as Acrobat, that allow explict
tray selection from their dialogs, but this is not always very
convenient. I have never seen anything like that before, and with my
other Mac that runs 10.2.8 I do not have this problem either. I have
even tried to compare the printer PPD (in /etc/cups/ppd ) files from
these two flavors of OS X - 10.3.5 and 10.2.8, and I found no
differences whatsoever in any part that relates to trays and paper feed.
Has anyone ever run into such or similar problem?
Semyon Tsynkov
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