Question involving PDF's on Stock Paper

Hi, I'm hoping someone could answer this question for me. We are currently implementing LiveCycle ES and a designer template to replace an existing process. Our current process produces Postscript files, we then add media calls to the postscript files for our highspeed printer center.
The postscript commands look like this: <</MediaColor(white)/MediaType(2010StockNotice)>>setpagedevice
My question is, is there a way to do this in PDF using LiveCycle Designer templates?
Would this possibly be done in LiveCycle Output? via an XDC file?
NOTE: It's more than just saying page 1 is to be printed from Paper tray 1, Page 2 on Paper tray 2 etc. It's the actual Media type name so that our highspeed print center knows which stock to load.
Thanks,
Terry

Firstly,
Thanks for answering my questions it's been helpful so far.
To rephrase my question... Is there a way in LiveCycle Designer to insert postscript commands (i.e. as metadata or somewhere else) which would be picked up during the printing? Specifically the setpagedevice command?
If the answer to the above question is no, then is the alternative solution to have LiveCycle Output generate a postscript file then specify an XDC file which has the media type specified in it?
My preference is to implement the LiveCycle Designer solution if its possible.
Thanks,
Terry

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