Hewlett-Packard LaserJet 8000 and 8500 Color Printers
Product specific information for the printer and queue system is provided.
Output bins:
The base LaserJet 8500 Color and LaserJet 8000 printers have two possible destinations:
- Top output bin that prints face down.
- Left-side output bin that prints face up in reverse order.
If an optional High Capacity Output (HC0) device is installed, the additional trays are available as well.
The
output bins can be accessed using the (-=) flag of
the qprt command. The following table shows the
possible values and the corresponding output bin destination:
LaserJet 8500 Color:
| -= value (#) | destination output bin |
|---|---|
| 0 | Printer top/face-down bin |
| 1 | HC0 face-down bin 1 |
| 2 | HC0 face-down bin 2 |
| 3 | HC0 face-down bin 3 |
| 4 | HC0 face-down bin 4 |
| 5 | HC0 face-down bin 5 |
| 6 | HC0 face-down bin 6 |
| 7 | HC0 face-down bin 7 |
| 8 | HC0 face-down bin 8 |
| 50 | HC0 face-up |
| 50 | Printer left/face-up bin (when HC0 not installed) |
LaserJet 8000:
| -= value (#) | destination output bin |
|---|---|
| 0 | Printer top/face-down bin |
| 1 | HC0 face-down bin 1 |
| 2 | HC0 face-down bin 2 |
| 3 | HC0 face-down bin 3 |
| 4 | HC0 face-down bin 4 |
| 5 | HC0 face-down bin 5 |
| 6 | HC0 face-down bin 6 |
| 7 | HC0 face-down bin 7 |
| 8 | HC0 face-down bin 8 |
| 50 | HC0 face-up |
| 50 | Printer left/face-up bin (when HC0 not installed) |
| 51 | Stapler bin |
Number of copies:
The LaserJet 8000 and 8500 Color printers support printing copies internal. With the -W flag, only one copy of the print job is sent to the printer and the copies are then produced by the printer. The basic format is: -W #
Paper size:
Specifies paper size for the
print job:
| Print job | Paper size |
|---|---|
| -Q 1 | Letter |
| -Q 2 | Legal |
| -Q 4 | A4 |
| -Q 5 | Exec |
| -Q 8 | A3 |