Paper Tray Selection

[Jon White]

I see that there is an option for paper trays. Essentially I am
printing a 3 Part "PO". A White, Yellow, and Pink. Each color will be
located in 3 Separate trays. The unit I will be printing on is a Xerox
Workcentre 6400. The trays are Tray 2, 3, 4. In the options it only
lists Upper Tray, Lower Tray, etc.. How can I set it up to print to
the 3 trays I need.

Also, I'm not sure if what I need to do will function with PW. I am
actually Printing from our ERP software which runs on Linux.
Basically, what I was hoping to do was set up a printer on our Windows
Server 2003 machine, and share it via samba. That printer would accept
the print job from the ERP software, which would be 1 page, and
triplicate the job on 3 trays in order. First Tray 2, then Tray 3,
then Tray 4, giving me my 3 copies of the PO. As some POs are multiple
pages I would need to insure that PrintWizard prints each page in
triplicate in order so pages don't get mixed.

Is this possible?

[Bob Rasmussen]

Jonathan,

To have Print Wizard receive the job from Linux, you need to a) define
a remote printer to Linux, using the IP address of the PC, and queue
name you make up; b) in PWUI, create a service of type LPD, with the
the made-up queue name defined; c) create a profile that directs
output to the correct printer and sets a "page pattern" with "parts"
set to 3; and d) tie the queue to the profile. Then run the service.

Then Linux will send out the data using the LPD/LPR protocol. The PW
service will receive the job and start up the engine referencing the
appropriate profile.

The page pattern that you set up causes printwiz.exe (the engine) to
either repeat each page three times or repeat each job three times,
depending on whether you answered "collated" or "burst",

Now comes the hard part: bin sequencing. We still have some work to do
on this part of the user interface. You need to determine how Windows,
working with the printer driver, refers to those bins. They each have
a name and a number. The names are easier. Where the profile (step c
above) refers to a bin, you need to enter a bin pattern, which is a
comma-separated list of bin names, such as "tray 2,tray 3,tray 4".
This change is done by manually editing the profile file. As I said,
we have more work to do on this -- I'll move it to the top of the
list. Contact me Monday for assistance, if you like.

[Jon White]

Bob,


Looking to set this up and give it a go around, but I can't seem to
locate this profile file you speak of. Can you give me a heads up as
to where it is?

[Bob Rasmussen]

In PWUI make sure "Debug" and "Log messages" (in the "Edit" menu) are
checkmarked. Then open the profile you are using, and close it.

Go to Edit:View log, and you should see a message indicating where it
was loaded from.

Alternatively, in Tools:Setup profiles, click to select your service.
Then move the mouse slightly. The popup tooltip should show you the
complete pathname.

In general, setup files are either in
%APPDATA%\Print Wizard 4
or
%ALLUSERSPROFILE%\Print Wizard 4

APPDATA and ALLUSERSPROFILE are environment variables in Windows. When
you surround one of these environment variable names with percent
signs, Windows translates the variable to its value. Their default
values vary, depending on the version of Windows. You can find their
values by opening a CMD shell and typing:
set<enter>

Or, in Windows Explorer, in the address bar at the top, type %APPDATA%
(for instance) and hit <enter>.

Or, in Notepad, do that, or type it in the Filename slot.

I know this is messy. I'm trying to figure out how to make it easy to
use, and yet work well with Vista and Windows 7.

[Jon White]

Bob,

I believe I have everything set correctly, but I am not getting the 3
page print out. In the profile, I have set psbinname=tray2, tray3,
tray4, tried Tray 2, Tray 3, Tray 4, and also bin 2, bin 3, bin 4 and
do not have any response. In the profile setup, I've noticed that my
changes do not save in the Page Patterns tab. It just clears out to
blank after I close the properties window.

Any assistance would be appreciated.

- Jon

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[Bob Rasmussen]

Please send to me (not to the group) your profile file.

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[Bob Rasmussen]

The bin name string can not include any extra spaces, but SHOULD
include spaces that are indicated by the printer driver. In your case,
you should have:

psbinname="tray 2,tray 3,tray 4"

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[Bob Rasmussen]

How's your progress on this?

On Mon, 19 Jul 2010, Jon White wrote:

Regards,

[Jon White]

Bob,

I think I have it all set. But can you tell me how to change from
burst to collated in the profile? Also, If I purchase a Personal
License for PW3 will it work in the beta / for PW4 when its released?
I'd like for this to stop popping up the ENTER LICENSE wizard
everytime I send a job to it.

Thanks,
- Jon

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[Bob Rasmussen]

Yes, I think we can go ahead and get you a license for 4 now, if you
order.

[Bob Rasmussen]

In answer to your question:

But can you tell me how to change from
burst to collated in the profile?

The new PWUI (just posted) makes it easy to do this, in Page Patterns.

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