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In article <eli$1801181424@qz.little-neck.ny.us>, *@eli.users.panix.com 
says...

> I suspect Brother is using the same Postscript interpreter on all its 
PS
> capable printers, no matter the hardware options available.

That would be correct anyway, the hardware makes no difference to the 
interpreter as such, it just affects the available options.


> The presence of MediaWeight there gives me hope that I could use that
> for selecting cover versus non-cover for task, if I can figure out how
> to assign a weight to a tray. TraySwitch is also interesting.

Actually I find its presence there somewhat alarming, it should be in 
the InputAttributes sub-dictionary, not the page device dictionary.

In reality what you want is the content of the InputAttributes 
dictionary, and the values printed as well as the keys (dictionaries 
contain key/value pairs).

I presume you don't have 2 way communication with this printer ? It 
would be a lto easier to capture the back channel than print the actual 
data.

I'll see if I can come up with a program to print the key/value pairs 
from the InputAttributes dictionary.


> examine the differences: I've already thought of that. I've scoured 
the
> Mac and Windows printer options trying to find a way to change tray
> options (or any paper attributes other than size). No apparent way to do
> this that way.

Well, I already mentioned that I'm not a fan of Brother devices....



				Ken

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      Re: on paper tray selection Eli the Bearded <*@eli.users.panix.com> - 2018-01-18 19:24 +0000
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          Re: on paper tray selection Martin Leese <please@see.Web.for.e-mail.INVALID> - 2018-01-19 10:55 -0700
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