pltcfg file Default Printer Name

Offline Mike Robertson over 13 years ago

I'm trying to set the default printer name in a cutomized printer.pltcfg
file so it does not match the windows default printer. It works fine for
a locally installed printer but when I try to set the name to a share connected
printer on my machine it fails. I've tried using the printer name shown in
my control panel settings and the UNC path to the share.

Is there a way to set this to a network printer?

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Offline Roy Gallier Sun, Jan 3 2010 6:01 PM

This is how I do it:

plt - sysprinter /offset=(0.0,0.0) /units=in /name="\\ScanStation\HP9650" /fullsheet

pltcfg - <SystemPrinterPrinterName>\\ScanStation\HP9650</SystemPrinterPrinterName>

HTH - Roy

HP DeskJet 9650.pltcfg
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Offline Roy Gallier Sun, Jan 3 2010 6:01 PM

This is how I do it:

plt - sysprinter /offset=(0.0,0.0) /units=in /name="\\ScanStation\HP9650" /fullsheet

pltcfg - <SystemPrinterPrinterName>\\ScanStation\HP9650</SystemPrinterPrinterName>

HTH - Roy

HP DeskJet 9650.pltcfg
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Offline Mike Robertson Mon, Jan 4 2010 12:28 PM in reply to Roy Gallier
Hello Roy,
Thanks Roy, finally got it to work. Strange, I had entered the UNC pathname
and saved and reloaded the pltcfg file but it didn't work. Got out of MicroStation
and restarted still didn't work. Rebooted machine and it worked (go figure).

Happy New Year
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