How to edit printer tray selection settings

If the output printer language is PCL:

1. Start PrintGuide™.
2. In Monitor View, locate the PrintServer in the list of Detected Devices and double-click it.
3. In Configuration View, locate a Logical Printer that matches your requirements and double-click it.
4. Select the Printer tab to show the Printer Settings.
   The Tray Definitions shown represent a physical description of the connected printer's input and output (if applicable) trays.
   If Auto Configure Settings is checked, the PrintServer gets the description from the physical printer when it is started up. If unchecked, you can change the definitions manually.
   The PCL values used are specific to the printer model and determine the tray used.
5. If you want to change which physical tray is used for a particular definition, you must refer to the printer's manual and change the PCL value in the table to reflect the PCL Media Source you want to use.
   Note: The PCL values are the same as the PAPERSOURCE values in the printer description (*.itc) file.
6. If you want to install/ uninstall a particular tray, click on the Installed value in the table to toggle Yes/ No.
7. Select the PSS/ IPDS/ DCA/ SCS tab.
   The installed trays are mapped from the host to the printer as shown in the Tray Mapping table.
   If Auto Configure Settings is checked, the PrintServer automatically maps the trays based on the Tray Definitions table when it is started up. If unchecked, you can change the mappings manually.
8. When you have finished editing the settings, select PrintServer, Save Configuration.
9. Click OK to confirm, remembering to check Restart PrintServer after download.

If the output printer language is Postscript:

If you want to change the physical tray used for a particular Tray definition, use this procedure. This is the only Tray Definition parameter that cannot be changed from PrintGuide™ for printers using PostScript. To change other Tray Definition parameters (for example; whether a tray is Installed), or to change Tray Mapping, refer to the procedure given above for PCL.

1. Follow steps 1 to 3 of the PCL language procedure, above.
2. In General Settings, change the Description to make it unique. Write it down.
   You need to be able to identify this logical printer later in this procedure.
3. Click OK.
4. Select File, Save As to save the configuration to file (*.cf2).
5. Open the configuration file in a plain text editor (for example; Notepad).
6. Search for the logical printer Description you wrote down earlier. Write down the printer incarnation id.
   Example:

   
   BEGIN_CONFIGURATION PRINTER 1
   
   

   The incarnation id here is 1.
7. Locate the printer description file (*.itc) that most closely matches your printer model.
8. Open the *.itc file in a plain text editor (for example; Notepad).
   A collection of these files are installed together with PrintGuide™ in a subdirectory named Printer Descriptions.
9. Edit the file to match the printer incarnation id you wrote down earlier in step 6 and save the file under a new name.
10. Locate the PostScript language specific information part of the file.
11. Refer to the PostScript language section of the printer's manual to find its Media Position value (HP printers & PostScript Level 3) or Priority value (all other printers). Change the INPUTPRIO value in the table to match.
12. Save the *.itc file.
13. In PrintGuide™, Monitor View, highlight the PrintServer in the list of Detected Devices.
14. Select PrintServer, Update Configuration.
15. Change Files of Type to All files *.*, locate the edited *.itc file.
16. Click Open.
17. Click OK to confirm, remember to check Restart PrintServer after download.
    The PrintServer merges the edited *.itc file with its current configuration.