Rick,

You may need to broaden your testing.  The books for afp2pcl and afpxpcl
both contain this Tip for the AOP_TRAYID:
PCL tray IDs do not match the tray numbers embossed on the actual printer
trays.

Test changing more than just the fourth position.

For more details, see
http://pic.dhe.ibm.com/infocenter/zos/v1r13/topic/com.ibm.zos.r13.aokfa00/afp2pclentry.htm?resultof=%22%61%66%70%78%70%63%6c%22%20%22%61%6f%70%5f%74%72%61%79%69%64%22%20

--Roger


On Wed, Jun 18, 2014 at 7:45 AM, Rick Stetser <
[email protected]> wrote:

> I have a developer who's trying to print on an HP Laserjet P4015tn printer
> that has three paper sources.  The first one, I think, is the manual paper
> feed and the other two are actual trays that hold paper and they’re marked
> 3 and 4 on the outside of the tray.  The developer is trying to get the
> forms from the bottom tray (marked 4) to print but without success.  The
> document data is AFP which is transformed to PCL via IP Printway (hereafter
> called Infoprint).
>
> We're using a FORMDEF that looks like this:
>
> SETUNITS 1 IN 1 IN;
> FORMDEF WHDOC OFFSET .158 .197 JOG YES REPLACE YES;
> COPYGROUP LODRWRPT
>    BIN 2
>    OFFSET .158 .197;
> COPYGROUP UPDRWRSS
>    BIN 3
>    OFFSET .158 .197;
> COPYGROUP       DRWTHREE
>           BIN    4
>          OFFSET         .158          .197;
>
> Currently we print this document (using a slightly different FORMDEF) so
> that one page comes out on plain paper from tray 3 and the other paper has
> special paper stock and prints from tray 2.  The change that’s being tested
> is to have an additional page print on plain stock from tray 4.  What’s
> actually happening is the additional page is printing from tray 2.   If the
> FORMDEF COPYGROUP DRWTHREE, is changed to BIN 2, the stock draws from tray
> 3.
>
> We tried playing around with the AOP_TRAYID settings changing the fourth
> position to all of the values from 1 to 5.  In many cases that caused the
> printer to draw from the manual paper feed.  If anyone has any suggestions
> on this I would sure appreciate it.  We're z/OS 1.13.
>
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