Media attributes and commands

This section includes the following information about paper attributes:

Paper-source commands

Paper-type commands

Paper-source commands

The PCL 6 Print driver attribute for paper source is ubyte # MediaSource or ubyte_array "string" MediaSource. See the following table for values of #. For example, "ubyte 4 MediaSource" is the command for Tray 2.

The PCL 5 print driver 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.

NOTE: The HP Color LaserJet Enterprise CP4020-CP4520 Series products support Tray 1, Tray 2, and Tray 3 only.

Table 6-4Paper-source commands 1

Input source

PCL 5

PCL 6

PCL 6

PostScript

 

Esc&l#H

ubyte #

ubyte_array

/MediaPosition

 

 

MediaSource 2

"string"

# or null/

 

 

 

MediaSource

ManualFeed true

 

 

 

 

or false

Automatically select

NA

NA

NA

NA

 

 

 

 

 

Printer auto select

7

1

AUTOSELECT

null false

 

 

 

 

 

Manual feed in tray 1

2

2

MANUALFEED

3 true

 

 

 

 

 

Tray 1 (100-sheet)

4

3

TRAY1

3 false

 

 

 

 

 

Tray 2 (250-sheet)

1

4

TRAY2

0 false

 

 

 

 

 

Tray 3 (500-sheet)

5

5

TRAY3

1 false

 

 

 

 

 

Tray 4 1

8

7

TRAY4

4 false

 

 

 

 

 

Tray 5 1

9

None

TRAY5

38 false

 

 

 

 

 

Tray 6 1

NA

None

TRAY6

39 false

 

 

 

 

 

Tray 7 1

NA

None

TRAY7

40 false

Tray 8 1

NA

None

TRAY8

41 false

 

 

 

 

 

Tray 9 1

NA

None

TRAY9

42 false

 

 

 

 

 

Tray # 3

20 to 39

8 to 55

TRAY# (# depends on the

5 to 37 false

 

 

 

number of internal trays)

 

 

 

 

 

 

ENWW

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