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A quick little article that discusses how to send files to a printer, edit your print driver file to bypass the Save As dialog and setting up for printing to an network printer by using the netuse command. 1999-05-12 Original posting date. 2005-02-18 Edited for clarity.
Sending a plot file to a printer: Once you've created your plot file from within MicroStation, you'll need to send it to the printer. This is done by sending the following command via the system Command Prompt window: copy myplot.000 lpt1 OR copy myplot.000 \\server\printer
Assigns a name to connect to the resource or specifies the device to be disconnected. There are two kinds of devicenames: disk drives (D: through Z:) and printers (LPT1: through LPT3:).
Is the name of the computer controlling the shared resource. If the computername contains blank characters, enclose the double backslash (\\) and the computername in quotation marks (" "). The computername may be from 1 to 15 characters long.
Is the network name of the shared resource.
For example: NET USE LPT1 \\PRINTMAN\HP650C will return the message "command completed successfully" and set \\PRINTMAN\HP650C as the destination of the LPT1 port for that machine. Another example, using Banyon Vines Network software or Novell NetWare software with the format: NET USE LPT1 \\LOCALHUB\PLOTQUE will return the message "command completed successfully" and set \\LOCALHUB\PLOTQUE as the destination of the LPT1 port for that machine. The NET USE command can be added to the autoexec.bat file in both Windows NT and 95. Upon start up, the destination will be set for the specified port for that machine.
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