Laserwriter, no manual printing

My presets were remembered from Tiger to Leopard but now when I want to print by manual feed on my Laserwriter 630 using the previous manual preset carried over from Tiger, the printer just prints automatically from the installed paper tray.
If I ever encountered a printing problem I would always use the trusted Desktop Printer Utility program, but now that OS 9 is not supported I don't know what to do.
Any help would be appreciated. Thanks.
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Thanks for your reply Grant but perhaps I am not making myself clear. We have 2 select 360's. When I put a piece of paper in my printer's manual slot and select manual print in the print dialog window, the printer prints. When I do the same thing in my wife's select 360, a message appears saying "the printer is waiting for a piece of paper to be inserted" It has nothing to do with the size of paper, we only use letter size.
I remember being able to turn this message off because my printer used to do the same thing. Some thing like " When manual printing no special warning." I have forgotton how to do this and I don't see any place in the LaserWriter utility that addresses this.Maybe I need a copy of an older LW utility
Thanks for any help

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