6 Engineering Detail

Introduction

This section presents engineering detail for the following topics:

•Media attributes

•Print server operating system migration

Media attributes

This section includes the following information about media attributes:

•paper sources and destinations

•paper-tray configurations

•paper-source commands

•media types and sizes

•PCL 6 and PCL 5c custom paper sizes

Paper-source commands

The PCL 5c escape sequence for paper source is "Esc&l#H" (the "l" is a lowercase "L" rather than the numeral "1"). See the following table for values of #. For example, "Esc& l1H" is the command for tray 2.

The PCL 6 escape sequence for paper source is "ubyte # MediaSource". See the following table for values of #. For example, "ubyte 4 MediaSource" is the command for tray 2.

Table 80: Paper-source commands

Paper source

PCL 6

 

MediaSource #

Tray 1

3

Tray 2 (500-sheet)

4

Tray 3 (500-sheet)

5

Tray 41 (2000-sheet)

8

Auto Select

1

Manual feed

2

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