I need to attach a printer command (PCL) to all jobs from a print queue

We're running NW5.1 SP1a, and I want to send a PCL command to the
printer before all print jobs come from a certain queue. The purpose of
this is so that the DOS-based program that prints to LPT3 will print
from tray 2 of our networked laser printer. I have the PCL command I
need, and if I put it at the beginning of a doucment and then print it
from the DOS program, it will come from the correct tray.
BTW, this program is run from machines running DOS 6.22, Windows 98,
and XP. Some of the DOS boxes do a network boot from floppy, so doing
something with printer drivers on each machine is not an option. Since
they all capture the same print queues, all it would take is to be able
to send the PCL command to the printer with every job. Surely this is
possible?
Thanks!

Thank you for your help. I finally figured out what the problem was.
None of the printer definitions were visible to me when creating print
job configurations. I finally figured out what you do to import them.
Now I can attach them to my print job configuration. Yay!
I must have had some problem with the search queries I was using,
because I never could find out how to create print device definitions.
I have a couple of books here, but all they say is useless stuff like
"Print device definitions are created using the Administrator Console."
Thanks to the page of the documentation you linked to (and searching
from that section of the documentation and then following the
resulting links), I found out exactly what to do with the Administrator
Console to create/define print configurations. Now I can create a
complete print job. Yee-haw!
BTW, I have no problem RTFM-ing as long as I have the right FM to R.
Thanks again for pointing me in the right direction!
James
P.S--For what it's worth, although initially a bit counterintuitive for
someone whose primary background is Microsoft-based, the more I delve
into Netware, the better I like it. It makes the MS methodology seem
like a bunch of ugly hacks held together with the software equivalents
of bailing wire and duct tape.

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