Lukas Beeler’s IT Blog

EuroForm offers IPDS modules for HP printers. One of our customers bought one of them directly - we didn’t test them before, so i didn’t have much clue on how to get them working. The customers technician even preinstalled them into the printer, so there wasn’t much work for me to do anyway.

I configured an appropriate *PSFCFG and *DEVD, according to the documentation provided by EuroForm.

Printing worked. Overlays worked. But i could only access trays 1-3 (numbered 2-4 on the printer itself). So i opened the WebConfig GUI of the Printer:

The printer recognized all 5 trays (yes, they were not yet configured for different paper types, but that isn’t a problem). But the IPDS module didn’t. I called the hotline of the swiss reseller Now Consulting.

While waiting for the callback, i played around with the options. And yes - the Envelope Tray and the Multifunction Tray mentioned in the second screenshot corresponded to trays 5 and 6 of the printer. The problem was solved. Now that was easy.

About three hours later, i was already at home (~18:00), one of the Now Consulting guys called me - told me to fax all information (screenshots were not acceptable). Oh well. Luckily the problem was already solved.