Our remote office uses an HP5500N for plotting 11x17 sheets. Printing 11x17 from other programs (word, excel, etc.) works fine. But when plotting from Microstation, the printer is trying to use tray 2 (filled with 8.5x11) instead of tray 3 (filled with 11x17), and the user has to manually correct it on the printer.
This same plot driver works fine with our HP8150 and a Xerox 7335.
Thanks,
make a copy of the current printer.plt that your using and rename it hp5500N_tray3.plt
sysprinter /name="printer-name" /form=f /orientation=o /offset=(h,v)/tray=t /fullsheet ==================================================================== tray This value can be any valid tray name for the selected printer, such as Tray 1, Manual Feeder, and so on. Where a printer has a choice of trays (or paper sources) you can check the available tray names by clicking the Configure Windows Printer icon in the Print dialog box, which opens the system Print setup dialog box. In this dialog box, you can select the required printer Name and then click Properties to view the printer's properties, including that for paper source.
Some manufacturers have used tray names that contain characters outside the normal ASCII printable range. To handle this case, you can enter a "?" in place of any character and MicroStation will match the actual name. If the tray name contains spaces or `/´, it should be enclosed in single (`) or double (") quotes. If the tray name contains " (double quote) as part of the name, use a single quote pair.
The /tray qualifier is optional. If omitted, the Windows default setting for the named printer will be used. ================================================================================================================== so find out the tray name or number and edit your hp5500N_tray3.plt so the .Tray= tray name or number..
then use this modified printer.plt to plot to tray 3..
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