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I’ve just purchased a HP 4100TN with a third tray. Tray 1 has an envelope feeder. Trays 2 and 3 have Letter sized paper, Tray 2 has letterhead, and Tray 3 has Plain paper. That’s how I configured the printer on it’s front panel. Per HP, I’m running the PCL 5 driver instead of the PCL 6 driver.

Workstations are running winnt4.0 and word 97 SR-2.

I guess my frustration is why I am having such a tough time getting documents to print out of the correct bin. Why doesn’t the software allow me to choose by type anywhere? Is that a MS limitation?

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Some more info. I accidentally loaded the HP4000 PCL 5e driver on this printer, and it gave me Document Defaults that make sense, but they don’t seem to work. The 4100 has more options, they just don’t seem to work correctly.

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Hi
Dont you love printers ?
I can only suggest that you check (again !!) the device settings from Control Panel > Printers or where-ever.

I focused on the point that you made in yor post that you set up from the front panel of the printer.
Maybe I am whistling in the dark ..
Cheers
G

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Thanks for the suggestion. It looks like HP is trying to make it easier, but Word doesn’t seem to want to cooperate. Or the HP settings just don’t work. Since the beginning of computing, we’ve needed to print. And they still can’t get it right.

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When the HP2100 printers came out we had one heck of a time with protrait and landscape. We finally had to scrap the later print drivers and revert back to the Laserjet 4+ print driver (upon which the newer print drivers are based). This solved our printer problems (so far).
HTH – Gene

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I did try to backtrack to a HP4000, but I couldn’t seem to get it to work the way it works on the HP4000.

It’s just plain stupid. How can arguably the number one printer vendor not work correctly with arguably the number 1 OS and arguably the number one office suite?

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Our HP4000’s also gave us many problems. I’m talking about going back to the HP 4 plus printer driver. We used all varities of the LJ4000 printer driver (pcl and ps drivers). It’s the old 80/20 rule – eighty % of the people only use 20% of the functionality. – Gene

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I’ll have to experiment with that. We’ve got a LJ 5si that seems to work ok. Maybe I’ll just keep experimenting.

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Hi
I dont think there are enough trees for the paperless office..
I just adopt the notion that the s/ware over-rides the hardware settings. Word over-rides the Windows settings and windows over-rides the h/ware. Seems to work for me.
However I haven’t used the 4100.
Cheers
G

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“I’m running the PCL 5 driver instead of the PCL 6 driver” did you ever think that this might be your problem, I think you should be running with the PCL 6 driver

DaveA I am so far behind, I think I am First
Genealogy....confusing the dead and annoying the living

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Actually it was HP’s suggestion that I don’t run the PCL 6 driver, because, if I remember, it caused problems even recognizing there was a third tray.

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