Intermate AS/400, i5, iSeries manual Cassette Mapping Drawers, Selecting drawer by drawer number

Cassette Mapping (Drawers)

Selecting the drawer on an overlay can be done either by specifying a drawer number (*INPUT, *PRINTER, 1-255) or a paper type. Whenever possible it is recommended to select the drawer by use of the paper type as described below.

Selecting drawer by drawer number

When selecting a drawer in Design InterForm400® Overlay in the InterForm400® system, you should be aware of the differences between various printer types. InterForm400® will know from your specification of printer type which emulation the output should be formatted to but will not know which optional paper feeders etc. are installed on the printer.

For HP and other PCL compatible printers, the code specified in e.g. the field Drawer on the design menu will be used as value for the HP Paper Source PCL command ESC&l n H. You should refer to the user’s guide delivered with your printer to verify which paper source is used for each value of “n”.

For HP and other PCL compatible printers we have some more possibilities. The following is the standard definitions for the value of n and for the value stated for Drawer in the InterForm400® system, when printing on HP 5Si compatible printers:

1 - Tray 2 (upper drawer)

2 - Manual feed (tray 1, right side tray)

3 - Manual envelope feed (tray 1. Right tray)

4 - Tray 3 (lower drawer)

5 - High Capacity Input (HCI), first tray

6 - Optional envelope feeder.

7 - Autoselect

8 - Tray 1 (right side tray)

20-39 - High Capacity Input (HCI) trays 2-21

Select Drawer using Paper Type

It is advisable to use paper types for controlling drawer selection for each printer. The advantages when comparing to the traditional setup (where a drawer number is specified on the overlay design instead of a paper type) are:

•The same overlay can be used for printing on printers with totally different drawer setup. The paper type (and not the drawer number) on the overlay will be sent to the printer, where the paper type is translated into a drawer number depending on the setup of the printer.

•It is possible to move a merged spooled file intended for a printer with one drawer setup to another printer with a totally different drawer setup.

The requirements for selecting drawer on the printer using the paper type:

•The printer needs to support the possibility to select the drawer by the paper type instead of the drawer number.

•You need to manually make sure, that all of your printers have the same paper type setup so that the correct drawers are selected e.g. drawers with ‘PREPRINTED’ paper type should always contain preprinted paper with the company logo.

These are the standard paper types known by printers:

PLAIN

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