Does anyone know of a way to send operator messages to the printer operator on a xerox dt6180? I tried using ~%%OperatorMessage: (Master stock is Orange) so that the operator would know exactly what to load(stock) for a postscript job coming in before releasing the job.

Brice,

I saw in a very old thread something like this:



It seems like it was added before a trigger in the file. This assumes that the document is a printer-resident form that you call using a trigger. If that's the case, then maybe you could try adding the above code to your trigger, and see if you get operator messages. You could also try adding it to the document's comments and add a tilt, like you seem to be doing.

This may or may not work, however. This is custom postscript code after all, and not really a feature of our software, so this isn't something that we support. Also, every printers may behave differently. What works on one printer may not work on another. The old thread that I mentionned did not tell if the printer was also a Xerox, so I cannot guarantee that it will work.

Regards,
Raphaël Lalonde Lefebvre

Xerox machines using a FreeFlow or DocuSP front end use an XPIF job ticket (XML Data) that is appended to the start of the print data.

this is a BARE minimum XPIF ticket:


XPIF code formatting can be extracted using the Xerox postscript driver and selecting "Print to File" for the printer.

Raphael's example is for a Lakes machine, which are the smaller B/W copiers with a network printer interface added.

If you have any other questions, feel free to drop me a message. I work with a Xerox HLC 180, HLC 128 (both on a 6xxx engine), and a 700 DCP along with a couple Lakes machines