Tray and bin numbers
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This topic lists some of the technical details which 
EscapeE media definitions manage behind the scenes.
A PCL file will normally specify the media that it expects the whole document to be printed on. It does this by quoting a source tray number. This is not the number written on a printer tray, but an index number referring to the sort of tray that the media may be found in. For example, 2 for paper or 3 for envelopes.
1 = Feed paper from a printer-specific tray |
Selecting Print from the File menu engages the Windows® printer driver. This too uses 'sorts' of media trays referenced by number – confusingly, not the same as the PCL ones (and the same printer run in PostScript mode may use yet another tray number). EscapeE uses the symbol HPTRAYS to translate the PCL source tray numbers to Windows printer tray numbers.
1 = Upper 2 = Lower 3 = Middle 4 = Manual 5 = Envelope feed 6 = Feed envelope manually 7 = Auto 11 = Large-capacity feeder |
The numbers on the actual physical trays depend on the model of printer and do not occur in the file's printing set-up! For example, on the Xerox N40 printer, a PCL file requesting the lower tray "4" should be output as "2" by the Windows driver and the paper would actually be found in the printer tray labeled "3".
Output bin numbers are simpler, typically:
0 Automatic
1 Upper
2 Lower (rear)
Instead of selecting the tray by number, some printers allow an alphanumeric ID associated with a specific tray to be used in the {escape}&n#W command. |
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