How to Automatically select the proper paper tray?

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In article <I16Sd.2879685$f47.518719@news.easynews.com>,
Colon_Terminus@hotmail.com says...
> We have an HP 4600 color laser at our office. We need to print mostly on
> letter sized paper (8.5X11 in.)but we do have the need to print sometimes on
> legal sized paper (8.5X14 in.). We just purchased an additional paper feeder
> with the thought in mind that we'd put letter paper in one tray and legal
> paper in the other and the printer would just sort it out automatically.
> This doesn't happen. The printer ALWAYS wants to print from tray 2 (the new
> tray is seen and identified as tray 3). I'm fairly certain that there must
> be something simple that I can specify via the printers' control panel or
> the driver that'll cause it to opperate as expected, but I can't find it.

Go to the printers 'Printing Preferences' (Right-click it from
Start/Settings/Printers). In NT, it's 'Document Defaults'. For Win9x/ME,
it will be under Properties.

Depending on your driver, there may be an entry where you can specify
which paper size is in which tray. There should also be a tray setting
which offers something like 'automatically select'. You may need to look
for 'Advanced' buttons or tabs to find this.

Have you tried searching HP's knowledgebase at www.hp.com?

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