Comments on: Drawer selection for Lexmark T652DN

By: itdavid

itdavid — Mon, 26 Sep 2011 10:14:53 +0000

Thanks Bigmac46, that has solved that mystery. A+++ for you

By: bigmac46

bigmac46 — Thu, 22 Sep 2011 13:56:38 +0000

CHGPRTF can be used to specify a specific drawer but beware if all prointers are not set up the same.

By: bigmac46

bigmac46 — Thu, 22 Sep 2011 13:54:43 +0000

IPDS card starts counting with IPDS 0=physical drawer 1, 1 = physical drawer 2 , 2 = physical drawer 3. You can use IPDS controls at printer level. if you OVRPRTF to drawer 3 and set IPDS for IPDS 2 for drawer 3 it should work ok. The default settings for were allset that way. if you have the printer drawers set to the same paper type and size and a drawer goes to empty the Lexmarks pulls from the next drawer with the same configuration so be aware if youhave different forms in each drawer. We use different forms in each drawer on several printers so I use a customized name for each form /drawer combination to prevent problems. Takes a little up front work but that way I can look at a printer off site and know what is supposed to be in each drawer because letter/white doesn’t indicate “invoice with an overlay” in my mind especially when it really means “letter/white” on some printers. iuf using multiple printers set up the same way some of the newer models allow you to copy a configuration from another printer and this helps a lot. We also use wrkrpyle to answer load form types on the printers with multiple forms. Hope this helps a little.

By: itdavid

itdavid — Thu, 22 Sep 2011 09:24:41 +0000

Thanks WoodEngineer, after allot of trial and error it appears that when OVRPRTF is used and by adding 1 to my drawer it works (ie want drawer 2 to be selected so use drawer 3). Don’t understand why, but it does. How do I
now override all printfiles (default) rather than individual files?

By: as400print

as400print — Wed, 21 Sep 2011 21:56:52 +0000

Have you tried specifying DRAWER(3) on the printer file?

By: woodengineer

woodengineer — Tue, 20 Sep 2011 15:52:58 +0000

Check out Source Drawer parm on the OVRPRTF command.