Hallo, I didnt follow the thread up to now. Do you use GNULinux CUPS?
no: drop the rest yes: In that case its probably a problem of the .ppd and could be solved by modifying this filet or getting a better one from turboprint.com or a gutenprint driver will do it. Have you switched off CUPS? in my case I could (troubles with a Brother) I could solve the probelm perfectly. Walther Am Donnerstag, 19. April 2012 schrieb Malcolm Moore: > Incidentally ( or not ) LO gets it right in Windows > > > M > _____ > > From: mal [mailto:malc...@interele.demon.co.uk] > To: users@global.libreoffice.org > Sent: Mon, 16 Apr 2012 19:51:38 +0100 > Subject: Re: [libreoffice-users] Printer Dialogs > > On 15/04/12 19:42, Cor Nouws wrote: > > mal wrote (12-04-12 20:05) > > > >> On 11/04/12 22:10, Cor Nouws wrote: > >>> Where in LibreOffice do you get this? > >> > >> I just go to print a document. > >> File / Print > >> General /Properties > >> The paper tray drop down does not include the bypass tray > >> Also if you go to Device to select the paper in the options > >> there are only 13 paper types listed. This printer has 21 types > >> ( which show up in other applications ) > >> > >> Is that what you meant ? > > > > Yes, thanks. (it could have been that you referred to information on > > the page style, although that is not so logic.) > > > > I guess LibreOffice gets its information via the printer driver. And > > for me that's a terra incognita. > > Could it be that the bypass is automatically selected once you open > > it, or fill it? > > I think that the paper types are not relevant here. That are sort of > > definitions, referring in the end simply to the existing trays. > > > > Regards, > > Since we lease the printers I have spoken to both the engineers and the > training department as I was > hoping they could be set that way but these printers needs to be told to > use the bypass - it doesn't > select it automatically ( like small HP printers which if you put > something in the bypass it will take it > from there preferentially. ) > > The paper types don't just refer to the tray to take the paper from. > They also tell the printer how fast > to feed the paper through the machine. For example thick3 is used for > t-shirt printing paper and that > has to go through really slowly otherwise the toner doesn't stick. > > We have a really nasty work around for the t-shirt paper. That is, we > put it in tray 3 and set that tray to > thick1 ( which LO does show ) which slows the paper a bit. Then we also > select 1200 dpi instead of > the normal 600 which slows it even more and it works. However this does > use up a tray and you can > also only get away which doing 2 or 3 pages then you have to put a blank > sheet through from a normal > tray to clean the rollers. > > best wishes > > M > > > -- > For unsubscribe instructions e-mail to: users+h...@global.libreoffice.org > Problems? > http://www.libreoffice.org/get-help/mailing-lists/how-to-unsubscribe/ > Posting guidelines + more: http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Netiquette > List archive: http://listarchives.libreoffice.org/global/users/ > All messages sent to this list will be publicly archived and cannot be > deleted -- For unsubscribe instructions e-mail to: users+h...@global.libreoffice.org Problems? http://www.libreoffice.org/get-help/mailing-lists/how-to-unsubscribe/ Posting guidelines + more: http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Netiquette List archive: http://listarchives.libreoffice.org/global/users/ All messages sent to this list will be publicly archived and cannot be deleted
