David Lesher wrote:
Hey; I would like to modify a 4050 PPD so as to force Letterhead to
be fed from Tray 1 & to be single-sided.

I had a hack working in OS9 but when I tried the same thing with
the OSX version, no joy.

Any comment?

Hi David,

We did this kind of thing all the time at a place I used to work.
Simplified a lot of things as far as printer installations and on-going
configuration correctness. I had one of my guys do it on a day-to-day
basis, though.

Anyway, seems like there would be two ways to do this:
1. Modify the PPD so that a) selecting Letterhead includes codes to
pull from Tray 1 and force duplex/tumble off and b) ensure the output
ordering is such that codes for paper selection comes after codes for
tray selection and duplex mode.

2. Modify the PPD with UIConstraints to prohibit the combination of
Letterhead with either duplex/tumble or a tray other than 1.

#2 is probably cleaner but I'm not sure if current Mac dialogs would
handle this in a user-friendly sort of way. I don't have access to a
LJ 4050 or any HP printer with more than one tray so I wouldn't be able
to test anything I try.

If you would like to e-mail me directly, I use Gmail as an ISP and my
account there is bzgnyc.

Best,
Ben