Printer tray commands

Xerox 7345 and Jetform tray commands
Our customer is using JF-5.5 currently working with a no. of the following printers models.
Dell 1700N Dell Laser Printer 1710n
Xerox Work Centre PRO 232
Xerox Work Centre PRO45 PCL6
Xerox Work Centre PRO45 PCL6
Xerox Work Centre 5645 PCL6
Xerox WC 5665 Black and White printer
Xerox WC 5645 - Black and White printer
There are approx 100 Designs which can be output to either print &/or pdf, these all use the following test presentment target(s):-
Print (default target) Generic PostScript L2 (pslevel2)
Pdf (secondary target) Portable Document Format - (pdf2)
and using fonts
Print - Arial MT
PDF - Arial (W1)
The "business application" generates the .dat files for processing by Central, dynamically generating the Job Line containing the Design/Form+Printer+tray, for example:-
^job 4030040301 -ati4 -afxon -z"\\msgsrv-jet\CLS - ALL"
^form 40300403
^Symbolset 108
We generally pass thru the tray command as follows,
-ati1 results in printing from printer-tray1
-ati2 results in printing from printer-tray2
-ati3 results in printing from printer-tray3
-ati4 results in printing from printer-tray4
-ati5 results in printing from printer-tray5
to-date printing to the different trays works OK.
We are now testing a Xerox WC 7345 PCL6 "colour printer" and
the tray commands are not working as per the existing printers.
What we have identified is that
-ati0/null results in printing from printer-tray1
-ati1 results in printing from printer-tray2
-ati2 results in printing from printer-tray3
-ati3 results in printing from printer-tray4
-ati4 results in printing from printer-tray2
-ati5 results in printing from printer-tray2
We need to be able to send in a command to direct print to tray5 (bypass-tray) ? I have seen posting on the Adobe JF Designer Forums that refer to use of tailored .ICS files to achieve the redirection to the different printer trays. I would like to avoid this solution as I reckon that in addition to producing/tailoring the relevant .ics files that this would also require amending the Presentment target on all designs to include the individual printers (.ics files). Therefore, this would require a compile and test of all of the documents.
We ideally need a solution via the current JobLine -ati command or another command to use on the JobLine to direct print output from tray5 on Xerox 7345. We will then be able to modify our application to output the relevant tray commands for each printer without having to amend any ICS files or JF Designs.
Would appreciate any help with the above.
Thanks
George

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HELO EVERY BODY
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