Lexmark Optra Color 45 Printer
Product specific information for the printer and queue system is provided.
Product specific information
| Item | Descriptor |
|---|---|
| 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.
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| 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 available
from Manual and Tray 1.
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 (lexOptraC45.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 operator 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 that many copies of the entire print job to be submitted or queued to the print system. Because the Optra Color 45 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 paper source above). |