Hello All,
We are trying to upgrade our infrastructure and facing an issue with the Lexmark W850 Printers that we employ for printing DGN files from Microstation using IPLOT. In our current infra which is on Windows 2003 we are able to print the file successfully. We have Microstation Select Series 2 V8i on the servers.
On the New Windows 2019 Server we have the Microstation Select Series 10 and although it works fine to plot from a HP Plotter, when we try to use Lexmark Printer with W850 Default Driver or the Lexmark Universal Driver or even a Lexmark PostScript Driver it just keeps on printing garbage characters as if its not able to decode the print. As a trial I tried to hook up Lexmark Printer with a HP Mono 5 /PCL Driver by Bentley and although it works it is not able to understand between different page sizes that Lexmark W850 can do in today's environment.
Any help is highly appreciated.
Prateek
Can you print from other applications without issue?
MicroStation has a "printer.pltcfg" which (I believe) uses the Windows driver for your default printer. If you haven't tried that yet, it might work.
Most offices I've worked at have quit printing to paper from MicroStation entirely. We use the "pdf.pltcfg" to create PDFs, and then print paper copies of those from Adobe or Bluebeam if we need them.
MaryB
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Hello Mary,
Thanks for your response. I haven't tried to print from any other application but have tried the Test Pages and they do print fine with the Lexmark Drivers. When I try to print from Microstation it just prints the ascii characters. As a trial and error I tried with various different drivers from Bentley and was able to print dgn files though it does not choose proper paper trays.
I had compared the printer.pltcfg files on working windows 2003 server and windows 2019 Server that is not working.
like mary said don't recommend you print direct to paper print to pdf and then pdf to paper.. much better method as you can see true look in the pdf before you waste a paper print especially if you do batch prints.... is very slow and wasteful if wrong.. better to print to multiple page pdfs and joining later then open and preview the multipage pdf then send one big fat pdf to paper plus you have a copy in time which you can send to client and or reprint also is good QA as you keep copy of plot in time..
I don't even print to plotter direct always pdf first as bad plots very expensive on large format plotter...re-educate your users to be more eco friendly and save on ink/ toner , paper prevent wasted prints...
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