As I said in my response to your (same) question in the Consumer forums:
You'll probably have to determine the # value in your (PCL5) escape sequence <Esc>&l#H by trial and error, since HP no longer appear to publish the details for modern devices.
For 'external' trays, the supported values may be quite large (e.g. 253).
The Tray Map tool in the PCL Paraphernalia application (available via this link ) enables you to generate test jobs containing user-selectable combinations of Paper Size, Paper Type and Paper Source (tray identifier) values, which may help with the exercise.
PCL XL (the Page Description Language underlying PCL6) is a totally different language to PCL5; it is much more structured, and uses a binary post-fix notation, so (unlike with PCL5) you can't just embed a few adhoc sequences amongst the source text.
Having said that, you may (or may not) be able to find out the required values in two other ways:
- Using the Windows PCL5 driver (if there is one) for your target printer, print a sample simple document, with the required external tray selected in the Print Preferences, but also select the 'print to file' option; then analyse the resultant .prn file (use the PRN File Analyse tool in the PCL Paraphernalia application) to determine the sequence used by that driver to select the target paper tray.
- Or look in the subfolders of the %Windows%\System32\Spool\Drivers folder for .GPD files (there'll probably be quite a few, and it is difficult to determine which ones are associated with a particualr printer); open the files (using NotePad) and look for 'tray or bin definitions'; for example, in hpism7a0.gpd (I've no idea which printer model this is for, since I've installed a number of drivers, for test purposes, in the past):
*Macros: BinIndexes
{
*%DMBIN_FORMSOURCE : 15
HP_DMBIN_PRINTER_AUTO_SELECT : 257
HP_DMBIN_MANUAL_FEED_TRAY_1 : 258
HP_DMBIN_TRAY1 : 259
HP_DMBIN_TRAY2 : 260
HP_DMBIN_TRAY3 : 261
HP_DMBIN_TRAY4 : 262
HP_DMBIN_TRAY5 : 263
HP_DMBIN_TRAY6 : 264
HP_DMBIN_TRAY7 : 265
HP_DMBIN_MAIN_TRAY : 259
HP_DMBIN_PHOTO_TRAY : 300
HP_DMBIN_UPPER_TRAY : 259
HP_DMBIN_LOWER_TRAY : 260
HP_DMBIN_LOWER_UPPER_TRAY : 302
HP_DMBIN_UPPER_LOWER_TRAY : 303
HP_DMBIN_SPECIALTY_MEDIA_TRAY : 304
HP_DMBIN_ANY_ROLL : 257
HP_DMBIN_ROLL_1 : 400
HP_DMBIN_ROLL_2 : 401
HP_DMBIN_ENVELOPE_FEEDER : 512
HP_DMBIN_CD_DVD_TRAY : 304
}