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Printing using various trays

Is it possible to stop printing once a particular tray is out of paper?  At the moment when the tray is empty the print continues using another tray which usually has letterhead or coloured paper in.

 

Carol Scarrott

Waugh Haines Rigby

01684 850033

  • jeff77 Jan 03, 2008

    Same issue. Tried changing paper type to letter, but it still prints automatically from the other tray instead of notifying that tray 4 is empty. It is controlled by a server. No PC driver to change. Just settings at the printer and via web config pages. It used to work fine, but someone changed some setting somewhere and now we have spent hours trying to figure out what. Any other suggestions would be appreciated.

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Set tray (3? ) or other non standard paper type trays to type setting of letterhead and set normal paper tray (2) paper type to plain .

 

You do this on printer keyboad find menu then find paper handling, tray xxx, paper type. xxxx...set or tick

 

Via operations panel you can also printout current settings too to see if you have done the change if you do one before and after

 

Then test,

 

There are other settings on your printer that can effect this and driver configuation and doc type setting on pc that can effect this also but try step above first and report back if still having issues. Is it run by a server? Do you abity to change driver settings on your pc?

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