[Xprint] Tray issues

[Thomas Dodd]

Mac Mason wrote:
> I'm more than a bit lost on how Xprint 'drivers' and whatnot work; I've
> got a Xerox 5400 that (when printed to via CUPS) works perfectly; when
> printed to via Xprint, it tries to get A4 paper (wrong) out of tray 2

Check the document and/or printer configuration files in 
<X-path>/server/etc/XpConfig/C/print/attributes/
Since I alway print from the default tray, with lette size paper, I have:
*default-medium: na-letter

in attributes/printer. To support multiple trays, you have to defin th 
trays and supported sizes in the model-config file for the correct 
driver, like models/PSdefault/model-config


> (also wrong). It would be easiest to simply have Xprint produce
> postscript and then hand it to a pre-defined (read: CUPS) spooling
> program. Is there a way to do that?

No, much easier to change the document defaults.

Xprint reall comes into it own when you configure all you printers 
manually, instead of using the automatic/default settings. Especially if 
you have more than one printer. Using the Xprinters file and 
attributes/printer, you can setup each printer individually, including 
which tray has what paper.

-Thomas