Printing to HP LaserJet III

[Ion-Mihai Tetcu]

On Mon, 10 May 2004 17:42:08 -0600 (MDT)
Warren Block <wblock at wonkity.com> wrote:

> On Mon, 10 May 2004, Ion-Mihai Tetcu wrote:
> 
> > 2. The tray I have is for "legal" paper and I want to use A4; the
> > problem is that if I set CUPS to print on A4 it's prompting "PC LOAD
> > A4" and I have to push "Continue" for each page.
> 
> The printer knows that it does not have A4 paper loaded.

:) I got that

>  On many HP printers, it can tell because there are configuration
>  switches that are set by the paper guides in the tray.

I think this is the case, if I set it from the menu it still complains.
My problem is that I complains for every page, but my friend's under
windows does it just for the first; I suppose cups is sending each page
separately.

Well, it seems I have to short some of those metallic parts on the tray
;-)

>  On others,  you might have to set that through the front panel menus.
> 
> > 3. From what I've seen on net there are many sub-models of LaserJet
> > III with different capabilities; is there any method to query the
> > printer and find out what it knows ?
> 
> Printing a test page should show options like PostScript or additional
> memory.

Yes, I got there; it's 3072K bytes, firmware 19901209, internal fonts
19900713 and Paper Tray legal. Nothing about PS.

Thanks,

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