At 23:20 01/28/2005, dirckx eddy wrote:

>Problem :

>When a user prints to the upper tray from one of the stations by means of

>a windows program

>(excel, word..) all subsequent prints from the dos-program go to the upper

>tray until

>somebody does a windows print to the lower tray.

>

>Question :

>Does anybody know a way to force the dos application (from within W2K) to

>always use the

>lower tray ?

I'd suspect the Windows program sets (thru the printer driver) the printer

to use the upper tray. The DOS program, not using the driver, just sends

output to LPT1, not selecting a tray (or knowing that such things exist).

If you can modify the DOS program, you could send (via ??? commands) the

PCL sequence for selecting the lower tray. Otherwise, the only thing I can

suggest is some small windows thing you can "RUN" that selects the lower

tray, then run that from the DOS pgm before you print. Kind of a longshot.

Dan Covill

San Diego