Additional Issues in Establishing a OIT UNIX Printserver Print Queue for an HP LaserJet 8100 Series Printer

This document contains some printer-specific information about the HP LaserJet 8100 series printer, for use when establishing a OIT UNIX printserver print queue.

In addition to the information, there are some questions below for you to answer; please send your answers to printmaster@princeton.edu at the same time you submit the Request to Establish a New Printserver Print Queue.

Although the printer may speak both AppleTalk and HP's version of IP printing, printserver will communicate with the printer exclusively using HP's version of IP printing; that provides better performance and features. Therefore, please configure the printer to speak IP, and to obtain its configuration using "BootP" (not DHCP); see your HP manuals for instructions. (You can still configure the printer to speak other communication protocols; printserver simply won't use them.)

The HP 8100N or 8100DN have some additional features we need to be aware of when driving the printer from the OIT printserver. To correctly define the print queue(s) for these printer models, we need you to answer the questions below. For some cases below, you'll also need to take additional steps in configuring the printer.

1. The printer comes standard with two built-in paper trays, numbered '2' and '3' (plus the manual feed, tray number '1'). One can optionally purchase and install either a 2000-Sheet Input Tray, or a 2x500-Sheet Input Tray (but not both).
   1. Have purchased and installed the optional 2000-Sheet Input Tray option (tray number 4)?

   2. Have you purchased and installed the optional 2x500-Sheet Input Tray option (tray numbers 4 and 5)?

2. Does the printer have the Duplex feature? (The feature is included standard on the 8100DN model; it can be purchased and installed as an optional feature for the 8100N model.) If not is that possible/likely that you may add it in the future?

3. Each paper tray can be loaded with a different kind of paper (e.g. 3holes-letter, 0holes-legal).
   1. What kind of paper will be loaded in tray 2?

   2. What kind of paper will be loaded in tray 3?

   3. If you purchased and install the optional 2000-Sheet Input Tray option, what kind of paper will be loaded in this tray (tray 4)?

   4. If you purchased and install the optional 2x500-Sheet Input Tray option, what kind of paper will be loaded in tray 4? And what kind of paper will be loaded into tray 5?

4. If your answer to question #2 is "yes" (your printer has the duplex feature, or may get it in the future), and you load "3hole" paper into any tray, then be sure to load it into the tray so the holes are on the right.

   Please use the printer's front panel controls to tell the printer that any tray (other than tray 1) containing 3hole paper has a paper type of "prepunched"; see below.

5. If your answers to question #3 specified different kinds of paper (you're not loading the same kind of paper into all the trays), then please use the printer's front panel controls to tell the printer that each tray has a different paper type; see below. What paper type you specify for each tray doesn't matter (e.g. "bond", "transparency", etc.), with the exception that you must specify "prepunched" for any tray containing 3hole paper (and must not specify that paper type for any tray that does not contain 3hole paper).

Specifying Different Kinds of Paper Stock

If the instructions above directed you to use the printer's front panel controls to tell the printer you have various kinds of paper stock in particular trays, you do this using the console's "Tray' menu; see the HP manuals that came with the printer for instructions (Note: you are specifying kinds of paper stock, *not* paper sizes.)

This performs two functions:

• If you have loaded the printer's trays with different kinds of paper, this convinces the printer that it has different kinds of paper in each tray (or group of trays), so it will not automatically switch from one tray to another when it runs out of paper. (That automatic switching would defeat the purpose of loading different kinds of paper into each tray.)

• In simplex mode, the printer prints on the "bottom" of the sheet, but when printing in duplex mode, the printer prints first on the "top" of the sheet, then on the "bottom" of the sheet. When printing on 3hole paper, this would cause duplexed jobs to printed with the holes on the "wrong" side of the page. The printer avoids the problem by rotating the page image 180 degrees in memory before printing it if it is duplexing the job and drawing paper from a tray marked as having "prepunched" paper.

Note that configuring the printer to believe it has various paper types in different trays may mean that non-UNIX users who print to this printer may need to experiment with their printing software to determine what they need to do when they want to cause the printer to draw paper from a particular tray.