Cannot make Tray 2 default tray on Laserjet enterprise M506

[dansdaduk]

>> ... We really need to be able to set Any Type/Any size for tray 2 ...

If the printer firmware does not offer the "Any size" option for the cassette tray(s) , then I think that you're out of luck.

>> ... unless we use windows printing preferences which in our case will not be adequate ...

I don't understand what you mean by this.

[Jim_Asman]

Elsa,

Does the M605 printer that allows you to modify the setting you desire on tray 2 have a third tray? If so, perhaps a configured third tray added to this printer would free tray 2 to be declared "any" size. It's a shot in the dark, but ...

[dansdaduk]

Jim

>> ... if your 566xh printer is capable of A3 or ledger size paper ...

No; the 556xh does not support those large paper sizes.

It wasn't perhaps very clear what I meant about "rotated mode".

The test print job I used (attached, with analysis, in a .zip file) produces a single page, requesting a paper size of Legal, and a logical page orientation of Portrait.

The data on the page is mostly text, with a few PCL 'filled rectangles".

Most of this is printed with the default print direction of 0° rotation, but some of the text, and one of the filled rectangles, is printed after changing the print direction to 180° rotation.

Only orthogonal directions are supported by the print direction command:

With a print direction of 0° rotation, cursor positions are relative to the top and left edges of the logical page.

With a print direction of 180° rotation, cursor positions are relative to the bottom and right edges of the logical page.

With the LJ M475dn, the 'rotated' text/rectangle are positioned where I'd expect to see them, so the rotated data is positioned 'correctly' on that physical page size (relative to the non-rotated equivalents), and where I'd expect to see them if I'd actually used Legal paper.

With the PW 556xh, it seems that the printer has assumed a paper size of Legal (where the bottom edge is much lower than that with A4), even though it is only A4, so the 'rotated' text/rectangle are positioned much lower (relative to the non-rotated equivalents).

I certainly wouldn't recommend that Legal documents be printed on shorter (A4) media, so which of the above two results is more 'correct' is a bit of a moot point.

[RamyGemy]

Through the printer itself press the button ( HOME )
Scroll Down To ( Trays ) and Press Ok 
Choose ( Manage Trays ) and Press Ok 
Choose ( Use Requested Tray ) and Press Ok
Change From Exclusively to ( First ) and Press Ok  
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DONE 

[RamyGemy]

Through the printer itself press the button ( HOME )
Scroll Down To ( Trays ) and Press Ok 
Choose ( Manage Trays ) and Press Ok 
Choose ( Use Requested Tray ) and Press Ok
Change From Exclusively to ( First ) and Press Ok  
.
.
.
DONE