Printer settings include the printer name and driver and the printing of lines, colors, text, etc. You can set the properties in a dialog box with two tabs.
The printer properties will be defined when adding a printer. They
are saved in the ../user/DEFPLOT.SETTINGS file. You can change the
printer settings temporarily for a specific printing task. The
change will be valid until the software is started again and the
default printer settings will be read from the settings file.
Name
Sets the printer name, which will be displayed in the printer menu. Type a name for the printer.
Destination
Sets the print destination. The destination can be either a printer or a file, for example printing a PostScript file in ./print.eps. The file will be saved in the user folder. Select a suitable option.
Driver
Sets the printer driver, which can be either HPGL/2, Other (another driver), PostScript Level 2P or Windows driver. Select a suitable option.
Driver code
Will be determined automatically by the choice of driver.
Remove hidden lines
Sets whether hidden lines are to be printed or not. Select a suitable option.
Colors by screen and true linewidths
Select either of the following:
Yes - The lines will be printed with the colors displayed on the screen and with true line widths taking into account the printing scale selected in the Print dialog box. None of the pen sets will be used, but the Linewidth file on Page 2 will receive the value [None], and the Pen group will receive the value -1.
No - The lines will be printed according to the Linewidth file or Pen group defined on Page 2 regardless of the printing scale selected in the Print dialog box.
Print grid
Sets whether the grid is to be printed or not. Select a suitable option.
Print text
Sets whether text is to be printed as text or lines. Select a suitable option.
Print circles
Sets whether circles are to be printed as lines or circles. Select a suitable option.
Default sheet
Sets the size of the default sheet when any driver other than a Windows driver is selected. Select the sheet size, if necessary
Initial, final and information string
Sets the strings for the printer. Define the strings, if necessary.
Printing the line widths (and colors) of the pens used in the drawing can be set using a line-width file, pen set or line-width values typed in the dialog box.
A line-width file sets the plotter pen widths and colors to be used in printing. By default, the line width file NORMAL.LSET is used for the pen set PEN SET in the setup file DRAFT.PEN. The line-width file will be read from the fonts directory, in which you can create your own line-width files. The following files are included in the directory as examples: THIN.LSET (all lines printed using the line width 0.18), THICK.LSET (all lines printed using the line width 0.50) and COLOR.LSET (colors for the lines widths). The extension .lset needs to be added to all line-width file names. When you select a line-width file, the printing will be done according to the values in the file, even if you have typed a pen-set value in the dialog box.
Linewidth
The pen widths set in the Linewidth field in the dialog box will be used in printing when no line-width file has been determined, even if you have typed a pen-set value.
Print date
Sets the file name and date to be included in the printout. You can choose the center, bottom, top, etc. option for printing these. By default, the date is not included in the printout.
Pen group
The line widths in the drawing will be printed according to the pen-set values when no line-width file has been set. The pen set is determined in the setup file DRAFT.PEN. When you type no value for the pen set, the default pen set will be used. The pen-set value -1 will print the line widths as they have been drawn in the drawing.
Resolution
The default print resolution value is 300 dpi. You can change this value if necessary.
Resolution also affects the printing of raster images.
The effect of resolution value in PDF and PostScript (driver code 7 5) printing
If the resolution value is larger than 0 during printing, all raster images in the drawing will be printed out at most in the resolution which was specified. The number of pixels printed of the original raster image in the drawing depends on the sheet size used in printing and the specified resolution.
For example, when the width of the raster image on the printout is one inch, and 300 was specified as the resolution, the raster image on the printout will be 300 pixels wide. If the raster image originally had more pixels, some pixels will be lost and the quality of the image will be degraded. Otherwise, the printed image will have the original number of pixels.
If no resolution has been specified, the value is 0. All raster images will then be printed out with their original number of pixels regardless of the sheet size used for printing.
In PDF printing, we recommend using resolution value 0 by default so that the images will be saved in their original resolution. Resolution only needs to be separately defined when the drawing includes high-resolution raster images which you wish to print out in a smaller resolution due to printing speed or file size.
Other register
Sets one other register.
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