Lexmark Optra K 1220 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 "enhanced
PCL (R) 5e emulation" and the "PostScript (tm) Level 2 emulation"
by using the -u flag of the qprt command.
There are several optional input sources (see your manual to determine
which are installed). These numbers apply, no matter which ones are
present. If one is not present, choosing one of those will simply
default as per the user's manual. The input source number is the same
for both PCL and PostScript:
By default the banner and trailer pages come from tray 1. To change the default, change the values for the uH and/or uT attributes, respectively, in the virtual printer to the value for the desired paper source. Do this using the chvirprt command. Valid values are the same as for the -u flag. |
| Paper Size | Paper size selection is supported by using either one or both
of the qprt command flags, -O and -Q.
The -O flag controls paper versus envelope. A value
of 3 indicates a paper size and 4 an envelope size. The values 1 and
2 were skipped for backward compatibility. Envelopes are only valid
for manual feed, envelope feeder, or the multipurpose tray. The default
for -Q is 1 or Letter for paper sizes and 3 or Com
10 for envelope sizes. To change the defaults change the s0-s7 attributes
respectively for each of the valid input sources. Because manual feed
and the multipurpose tray support both paper and envelopes, the default
for paper is the "else" part (%e1) and the default for envelopes is
the "then" part (%t3) of s0 and s7.
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 -da flag
to a Postscript queue with the qprt command. Also,
only a pitch of 17 is supported for the lineprinter font style.
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| Collation | Normally, the -N command line option is used to specify the number of copies desired. This method will cause the specified number of copies of the entire print job to be submitted or queued to the print system. Because the Optra K 1220 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). |