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Panasonic KX-P4450 - Not Prompting For Legal |
The information in this document applies to:
WordPerfect® 5.1 for DOS
Problem
Symptoms: A user printing to a Panasonic KX-P4450 (Roland Raven LP-1100) printer with a legal paper tray in WP 5.0 was prompted to load the legal tray if the letter tray was in the printer. In WP 5.1, the user is not prompted. How can the user get the printer to prompt for the legal tray? Solutions: WP 5.1 and 6.0 do not currently send a Pagelength code to the printer. The code that tells the printer to switch trays is not needed because the tray is expected to be in the printer. When you use any paper cassette other than letter size, the cassette must be placed in the lower slot and the printer must be reset. If the printer must be reset before printing to the legal tray, then the code to tell the printer to switch trays is not any good. Problems can occur if the printer does not get reset, which is what happens when the printer prompts for the legal tray. The codes below describe how to tell 5.1 and 6.0 to send a pagelength code that will enable the user to be prompted. However, this printer has many limitations to the implementation of this code. If you try to mix paper sizes in the same document to print from the same location, the printer will not prompt you for the correct paper. The codes are being sent, but the printer will not accept them correctly. Often you will either have the paper printed from the wrong tray or you will get a blank page. Because of this limitation, Panasonic suggests users reset the printer when they switch paper trays. This is a printer limitation. Panasonic did not design the printer to have this capability. Steps for WP 5.1 1. Retrieve the printer driver 2. Press Enter to edit the printer 3. Choose 1 Initialize and Reset 4. Cursor down to Set Page Length and Press Enter 5. Press Ctrl-Enter to move to the editing window and type the following commands: hpformsize [27]"&l" IF(formsize) ASCII(FORMLENGTH/200) ELSEIF(FORMLENGTH>13200)"84" ELSE "66" ENDIF "p0E"[27]"9" 6. Exit and save the printer driver Steps for WP 6.0 1. Retrieve the printer driver 2. Press Enter to edit the printer 3. Choose E Printer Commands and 1 Initialize and Reset 4. Choose 8 Set Page Length 5. Type the following commands: hpformsize [27]"&l" IF(i_formsize) ASCII(FORMLENGTH/200) ELSEIF(FORMLENGTH>13200)"84" ELSE "66" ENDIF "p0E"[27]"9" 6. Exit and save the printer driver These changes will not be made to the shipping driver because this is not the way that the printer is meant to work with WordPerfect. When you print on legal paper to the Panasonic KX-P4450, the printer will not pause and prompt you to change trays, it will simply print on letter paper. |
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