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Chapter 18. Printing PCL or PostScript to PSF destinations:
Specifying which paper bin to use
In general, when you submit a print job through a PCL or PostScript driver, you
can use the printer options to specify which input paper bin you want the printer
to use. For example, if you know that white 8.5
×
11 inch paper is always loaded
in bin one and letterhead is always in bin two, you can select bin one when you
want to print a draft and bin two when you're ready to print a real letter.
When you send PCL or PostScript print jobs to a PSF Destination in InfoPrint
Manager, the data stream is transformed into Advanced Function Presentation
(AFP) before it is printed. By default, most PCL jobs that are transformed use
paper bin one, regardless of the bin you specify. Transformed PostScript jobs
default to letter-sized paper if no other options are specified, and look for a bin
that contains that size paper; they either print on paper from the first bin that
contains the right size or fail because they do not find the right paper.
If you want the transform program to check for your bin selection and include it in
the AFP data that is sent to the printer, you must specify mappings between the
PCL and PostScript bins and the AFP bins. The transform will use your mappings
to convert the bin number it finds in the PCL or PostScript into an AFP bin
number. You can configure InfoPrint Manager so that you can specify up to 20
different input paper bins. For information about how to figure out which PCL and
PostScript bins map to which AFP bins, see “Determining bin mappings.”
To set up bin mapping, see “Editing configuration files” on page 214.
Determining bin mappings
PCL printing
When you submit a print job through a PCL print driver and select a paper bin to
print from, the driver generates a bin number and puts it into the data stream.
Unfortunately, different drivers generate different bin numbers for the same bin.
For example, one driver might make "Tray 1" equal to bin 4 and "Auxiliary tray"
equal to bin 2, while another driver makes "Tray 1" equal to bin 1 and "Auxiliary
tray" equal to bin 8. To add more difficulty, the generated PCL bin numbers can
range from 0 to 59. While most drivers use low numbers (0 through 10), keep in
mind the other possibilities.
During the transformation from PCL to AFP, InfoPrint Manager takes the bin
number that the driver generated and compares it to the bin mappings you set.
The pcl2afp transform inserts the AFP bin number that you assigned and sends the
job to the destination you requested. The printer prints the job on paper from the
bin you chose. As a result, it is essential that all of the users who submit jobs to a
given InfoPrint Manager printer use the same driver. If they do not, the mappings
you set up will not work correctly for them.
The first challenge for you in setting up the mappings is determining what bin
number the PCL driver places in the data stream. For various InfoPrint printers,
the drivers actually generate the same bin numbers. If you are using the PCL5e
driver for an InfoPrint Network Printer 12, Network Printer 17, Network Printer
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