The MicroStation printing team is currently investigating design proposals for level and reference overrides when printing from either Print Organizer or the MicroStation Print dialog.  Today, MicroStation pen tables allow you to turn off levels when printing, but it is not possible to print a level or reference whose display was turned off in the design file at the time the print definition was created.

The leading proposed feature would be to add the ability to specify a collection of level and reference overrides to the print definition.  Each level override would allow you to specify regular expressions to match one or more levels based on the level name, the file name the level was defined in, and/or the reference logical name containing the level.  Reference overrides would be identified using regular expressions to match the reference file name or logical name.  Each override would indicate whether those levels or references should print or not print, regardless of the current view or design file settings.  Levels or references not matching any of the overrides would print as they are defined in the design file.

For example, the following two level overrides could be used to force all levels in all models to print, except for those starting with the letters "TOPO" in any file containing the letters "map", regardless of the saved design state:

Level name: .*    - ON

Level name: TOPO.*, File name: *.map.*    - OFF

The level and reference overrides could be defined in a default print style for automated enforcement of print standards, while still permitting individual modification on a per-print-definition basis.

Note that this would be a subtly different feature than the design state snapshot workflow provided today by InterPlot Organizer and MicroStation PDF Composer.

This topic is being discussion in this thread in the MicroStation V8i printing forum: http://communities.bentley.com/Products/MicroStation/MicroStation_V8i/MicroStation_V8i_Printing/f/19568/t/16200.aspx.  If you have any opinions on this feature, we would appreciate your feedback in that thread.