Microsoft KB Archive/29572

Bin Support for the Epson GQ-3500

PSS ID Number: Q29572 Article last modified on 11-02-1994

4.00 5.00

MS-DOS

= SUMMARY =

When printing more than one copy of a multi-page document on an Epson GQ-3500 with the Print Options “feed:” field set to Mixed, Word Versions 4.00 and 5.00 will feed the first page of the first copy from bin 1 and all subsequent pages from bin 2. In other words, the first page of the second or subsequent copies should feed from bin 1, but instead will feed from bin 2.

= MORE INFORMATION =

Two aspects of the printer driver (GQ3500P.PRD for portrait and GQ3500L.PRD for landscape orientation) need to be corrected so that when printing more than two copies, the first sheet of each copy feeds from bin 1 and all remaining pages from bin 2. Do the following to correct the Epson GQ-3500 drivers:

  Convert the printer driver into a text file with the MAKEPRD utility.   When the selected driver has been converted to a text file, load it into Word. Locate the line near the end of the file that begins as the following code: byte:0 mod:0   Following byte:0 mod:0, you will find the following sequence of codes: [YA[@ The ^[@ (printer reset) needs to preceded by the following: [Y^A (select bin one) Change the order of these two codes so they appear as follows: [@[YA Do not change the remaining codes of byte:0.   Locate the line below byte:0 that begins byte:38. This is the line that instructs Word on how the Epson GQ-3500 selects feeding from bin 1.   For Word Version 4.00, move to the end of the line and enter the following code: [Y^A The byte:38 line should now read as follows: byte:38 mod:0 ^[^Y^A   Save the modified Epson GQ-3500 driver unformatted.   Convert the text file back to a printer driver with the MAKEPRD utility. 

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