Hi, how can I do tray selections on PlanetPress Printer Driver?

Regards,

Oliver

In the Preferences section of the Print Dialog, you can set the Input Tray. Note, however, that this applies to all pages in the job (just like for any standard printer driver).

If you want to control individual sheets, you can't use a Windows Printer Driver. You can still print to the PlanetPress Printer Driver but without using the "Print using a Windows Driver" option. And then, you can set all your options in your Template to conditionally select the tray from which you want to pull sheets.

Hi Philippe,

Will this work also using an LPR print output? And my input is a Windows Print Queue using a PlanetPress Printer Driver?

Regards,

Oliver

PPress generates PostScript, so that will work with LPR as long as your device is PostScript. And yes, even if your Input comes from the PPress Printer Driver, it'll work because that will also get converted to PostScript.

Hi Philippe,

Thank you for answering all my questions.

Yes my device is a PostScript and I've run a test also to capture the job and check the PostScript code and looking through it I see beginsource then input tray selection.

But I don't know why it doesn't work. Any other things that I need to look into?

I've tried also adding the ppd inside the PlanetPress Design but that will work only on that particular printer.

My goal is to use PlanetPress Printer as my input source with tray selection functionality and send that job to LPR.

Regards,

Oliver

Hi Oliver,

Let me comment on this point:



Unfortunately, it is not possible to make a "universal" paper handling solution that will cover all printers. The way printers work can vary greatly between each others, and that's why you need a specific ppd for every printer. The "Default PPD" is a generic ppd file that will work on some printers, but definitely not all, and it's always recommended to use the correct ppd for each model of printer. Otherwise, it might not work.

In the end, you may end up having to use multiple .ptk forms for your solution, and implement some logic to have PlanetPress select the correct document based on what printer you are sending the job to.

Regards,
Raphaël Lalonde Lefebvre

Hi Raphael,

That is really a good idea! Thank you.

Just a follow up question. Let us say I have a single input source which is a PlanetPress Printer and a multiple LPR printer and I created multiple .ptk's for all my LPR printers. How can I logically choose a particular printer for my particular job?

Regards,

Oliver