Lexmark Optra T Laser Printer Family
Product specific information for the printers and queue systems is provided.
Product specific information
| Item | Descriptor |
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| Page Rotation | Page rotation selection is supported for the PCL 5e emulation
by using the -z flag of the qprt command.
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| Paper Source | Paper source selection is supported for both the enhanced
PCL (R) 5e emulation and the PostScript 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. The valid values are the same as for the -u flag. Do this with the chvirprt command. |
| Paper Size | Paper size selection is supported by using -O and -Q flags
of the qprt command.
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. 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 operator panel message that may not make sense
at first. See the manual to determine appropriate responses.
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| Paper Type | The Optra T printers support paper types Plain Paper (default), Bond, Transparency, Card Stock, Labels, Letterhead, Preprinted, Colored Paper, Envelope (default for envelope feeder) and Custom Type x, where x can be 1 through 6. This colon file does not attempt to set these values and will use whatever the printer is set to for that input source. The user should insure that the proper paper type is actually installed in the specified source. |
| 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) with the qprt command.
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 for other font styles, use the
base operating system enscript utility or the -da flag
to a PostScript queue with the qprt command.
Only a pitch of 17 is supported for the lineprinter font style.
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| Duplex Mode | The qprt command
line option -Y supports this.
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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 copies of the entire print job to be submitted or queued to the print system. Because the Optra T 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 the -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 separator page source defaults to TRAY 1 and is specified via the uS attribute. The valid values for uS are the same as for header and trailer pages (uH and uT respectively), except that the Manual Feeder is not supported. To change the default, the uS attribute must be changed in the virtual printer to one of the valid values (see the chvirprt command. |
| Output Destination | The -= (equal sign) is the command line option for specifying
the output destination. Valid values are:
The default value for the output destination is the standard bin (0). |