Lexmark Optra Color 1200 Printer
Product specific information for the printer and queue system is provided.
Product specific information
Item | Descriptor |
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Paper Source | Paper source selection is supported for both the PCL 5 emulation
and the PostScript Language by using the -u flag
of the qprt command.
By default the banner and trailer pages come from the tray 1. To change the default, change the values for the uH and/or uT attributes, respectively, in the colon file to the value for the desired paper source. Valid values are the same as for the -u flag. Do this by editing the virtual printer colon file by using the chvirprt command. |
Paper Size | Paper size selection is supported by using the qprt command
flags, -O and -Q. The -O flag
controls paper versus envelope. A -O value of 3 indicates
a paper size and 4 an envelope size. The values 1 and 2 were skipped
for backward compatibility. The first five paper sizes are also numbered
for backward compatibility. Whenever an invalid value for the input
source is selected, it will be ignored. Note: Envelopes are available
through Manual and MP Tray only.
The default for -O is 3 or paper. The default for -Q is 1 or Letter for paper sizes and Monarch for envelope sizes.
Note: The printer file (lexOptraC1200.pcl) for PCL
5 defaults the paper size to letter. To change the default size, change
the values for the s0-s3 attributes in the file respectively
for the _u (paper source) attributes. For example, to make
legal the default size for tray 2, change the s2 attribute
value to 2.
Note: For PCL queues, if the selected size is not
in the selected input source, a search sequence will be used to find
the size requested. If the size is found that source will be used.
For PostScript queues, if the selected size is not in the selected
input source, the printer will prompt the user to load the source
with the appropriate size. This may result in an unexpected paper
source being used or an op-panel message that may not make sense at
first. See the manual to determine appropriate responses.
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Pitch | Pitch selection is supported for the PCL emulation by using
the -p flag for pitch and the -s flag
for font name (or type face). Pitch values between 1 and 100 characters
per inch (cpi) in whole integers are supported. The condensed print
flag, -K, is not supported.
Note: To format ASCII files for other font styles use
the base operating system enscript utility or the qprt command
with the -da, -s, and -p flags
to a Postscript queue. For Postscript queues, -p stands for point
size and the valid list of fonts can be found in /usr/lib/ps/fontmap.
Valid point sizes are any integer from 1 to 1008.
Only a pitch of 17 is supported for the lineprinter font style. |
Collation | Normally, the -N command line option is used to specify the number of copies desired. This method will cause the specified copies of the entire print job to be submitted or queued to the print system. Because the Optra Color 1200 supports collation internally, options were added to support it and the number of copies of each page internally. This functionality- is limited by the amount of memory installed in your printer and the size of the job. The -W# option determines how many copies of each page is desired, where # is the number of copies. The -S [!/+] option controls whether collation is desired. The default is ! (or not). The main advantages of using the -W and -S options are to conserve printer subsystem usage and allow the printer to handle multiple copies instead of sending # copies to the printer. Using the -S! options with -W# also allows # copies of each page in a row, if that is desired. Note that using -N and -W simultaneously is allowed. This would result in -N print jobs with -W copies of each page in each job. |
Separator Pages | The -E flag controls separator pages. The valid values are 0, 1, 2, and 3 which represent NONE, BETWEENCOPIES, BETWEENJOBS, and BETWEENPAGES respectively. The paper source for separator pages is set via the colon file attribute uS and defaults to TRAY 1. The valid values for uS are the same as uH and uT, except manual feed is not a valid source for separator pages. To change the default, the uS attribute must be changed in the virtual printer to one of the valid values (see the "Paper Source" information for this printer). |