Question

Maybe I’m missing something simple and my Google-Fu is failing, but I can’t seem to figure out how to set the @"InputSlot" key for an NSPrintInfo object. I can get a list for my printer (a Dymo Labelwriter 450 Twin Turbo) with:

NSArray * printerInputSlots = [printer stringListForKey: @"InputSlot" inTable:@"PPD"];
for (NSString* slot in printerInputSlots){
    NSLog (@"%@", slot);
}

and it logs: ‘Auto’ ‘Left’ ‘Right’, but I can’t find anywhere to set which one I want to use in the NSPrintInfo. I tried:

[[myPrintInfo dictionary] setObject:@"Left" forKey:@"InputSlot"];

but that didn’t work. NSPrintPaperFeed is deprecated, and as far as I can tell print job attributes doesn’t have a key to work with feed.

Answer 1

after more searching and reading through the apple docs (again and again) i found that:

[[myPrintInfo printSettings] setObject@"Left" forKey:@"InputSlot"];

did the trick.