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A just-out-of-the-box Apple personal laserwriter sits by my desk
connected to a Sun3 running UNIX.  It prints from its feeder tray
fine.

IS THERE ANY WAY to set up the laserwriter so that, when I stick a
sheet of paper in its manual-feed slot, the printer automatically
feeds from there, rather than the tray?  (The manual-feed slot has a
plastic finger which is pushed up by the sheet; so in principle the
printer can sense the presence of the paper.)


The only way I can get it to manual-feed is to be printing a dvi file:
I run the program

  dvips

with the -m option set.  From the man page:

 NAME
      dvips - convert a TeX dvi file to PostScript (PostScript  is
      a trademark of Adobe Systems, Inc.)

 ...

      -m   Specify manual feed for printer.


I presume this puts some postscript code into the resulting postscript
file.

HERE IS WHAT HAPPENS:

  dvipr -m  one_page_file.dvi

prints just fine, using manual feed.


  dvipr  two_page_file.dvi

prints fine, feeding from the tray.


  dvipr  -m two_page_file.dvi

feeds both pages manually.  The first page prints fine.  The second
page suddenly goes white.  No error indication appear on the printer
or from UNIX.

ADDITIONAL, POSSIBLY IRRELEVANT, INFORMATION:
  I did this twice with a Tex document that has many fonts.  The first
time, the upper half of the second page printed (aligned correctly
with the top of the paper) and the bottom half was blank.
  The second time (same document, two minutes later) only the top 1/4
of the second page printed.

I then did dvipr but without -m and both pages printed perfectly.

	Does anyone have any ideas?

Sincerely,

Jonathan

I would appreciate reply to
squash@math.ufl.edu

Please note: I know nothing about postscript.  I am looking for an
answer from a humble user's point-of-view.