Issue with Lexmark W850 Printer while printing using IPLOT

RE: Issue with Lexmark W850 Printer while printing using IPLOT

Lorys — Tue, 05 Apr 2022 10:05:09 GMT

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...

RE: Issue with Lexmark W850 Printer while printing using IPLOT

Prateek Tandon — Fri, 25 Mar 2022 14:23:41 GMT

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.

Prateek

RE: Issue with Lexmark W850 Printer while printing using IPLOT

MaryB — Fri, 25 Mar 2022 13:41:49 GMT

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.