Bentley Communities
Bentley Communities
  • Site
  • User
  • Site
  • Search
  • User
  • Welcome
  • Products
  • Support
  • About
  • More
  • Cancel
MicroStation
  • Product Communities
  • More
MicroStation
[Archived] AskInga Wiki Hewlett-Packard print drivers
    • Sign in

    • -AskInga
      • +3D MicroStation
      • +AccuDraw Secrets
      • +Animation - Rendering
      • +Behind The Scenes
      • +Cells
      • +Colours
      • +Conversion - Translation
      • +Coordinate Input
      • +Design Settings
      • +Dimensions
      • +DWG
      • +EDG
      • +Element Manipulation
      • +Element Properties
      • +Element Selection
      • +Freeware - Shareware
      • +Interface Look And Feel
      • +Internet - E-Links - Links
      • +Keyins
      • +Levels
      • +Line Styles
      • +Models
      • +MSM Archive
      • +Other
      • +Presentations
      • -Printing - Plotting
        • A quick solution to plot transparent shapes in V7
        • A quick solution to plot transparent shapes in V8
        • Add levels to your PDFs
        • An awesome EMF plot driver
        • Changing printer.plt to metric
        • Configuring line weights in PRINTER.PLT
        • Controlling pen wdths with pen tables
        • Create plot shapes with this macro
        • Creating EMF and WMF files with MicroStation V8 XM Edition
        • Customized PDF plot drivers for Acrobat Distiller
        • Default plot scale
        • Edit the print driver to print to file
        • File naming conventions and pen table customization
        • Hewlett Packard Graphics Language 2
        • Hewlett-Packard print drivers
        • How to make a PDF of your design file
        • How to plot a file
        • Improve fonts in PDFs made from a design file
        • Masking text on plots
        • Open and edit files via a Batch Plot Job file
        • Open PDF automatically after creating them
        • Plotting rasters
        • Plotting to scale
        • Prevent editing of the printer driver configuration file
        • Print accounting variables
        • Printing grayscale to a laser printer
        • Show drawing plot scale in border
        • Show entire file name in border
        • Show model name in the border
        • Show the Windows username in border
        • The contents of a customized plot driver
        • Turn off the ability to plot levels
        • Using customization to automate batch plotting
        • Using the Batch Plot utility
        • White to black conversion when printing
      • +Programming - Automation
      • +Rasters - Images
      • +References
      • +Tags - Data Fields - Fields
      • +Text - Fonts - Annotation
      • +Views
      • +Windows - Interacting With
      • +Workspaces - Configuration
    • graffiti

     
     Questions about this article, topic, or product? Click here. 

    Hewlett-Packard print drivers

    AskInga logo

    Original Article Date: July 16, 1999

    This article lists the most commonly used Hewlett­Packard (HP) printers/plotters and the MicroStation plotter driver to use to produce the best results.

    The following tables list commonly used Hewlett­Packard (HP) printers/plotters and the MicroStation plotter driver to use to produce the best printing/plotting results. See note at bottom for printing/plotting images.

    Note:
    PRINTER.PLT may be used to access the installed Windows system printer/plotter drivers under any Windows platform running MicroStation 95 or MicroStation SE and the Macintosh platform running MicroStation 95 or MicroStation V5.

    HP DesignJet Plotters
    See Legend below

    Model

    HPDJET.plt

    HP650C.plt

    PS650C.plt

    PSC650C.plt

    HPGLRTL.plt

    200

    M 1

    C 3

    -

    -

    C 1

    220

    M 1

    C 3

    -

    -

    C 1

    230

    M 1

    C 3

    -

    -

    C 1

    250C

    M 1

    C 1

    -

    -

    C 1

    330

    M 1

    C 3

    -

    -

    C 1

    350C

    M 1

    C 1

    -

    -

    C 1

    430

    M 1

    C 3

    -

    -

    C 1

    450C

    M 1

    C 1

    -

    -

    C 1

    455CA

    M 1

    C 1

    -

    -

    C 1

    600

    M 1

    C 3

    -

    -

    -

    650C

    M 1

    C 1

    M 2

    C 2

    C 1

    700

    M 1

    C 3

    M 2

    C 2,3

    C 1

    750C

    M 1

    C 1

    M 2

    C 2

    C 1

    755C

    M 1

    C 1

    M 1

    C 1

    C 1

    2000CP

    M 1

    C 1

    -

    -

    C 1

    2500CP

    M 1

    C 1

    M 1

    C 1

    C 1

    HP LaserJet Printers
    See Legend below

    Model

    HPLJET4V.plt

    HPPCL5.plt

    PSCRIPT.plt

    PSCRIPTC.plt

    LaserJet 4MV

    C 3

    M 1

    M 1

    C 3

    LaserJet 4V

    C 3

    M 1

    M 2

    C 2,3

    LaserJet 5

    C 3

    M 1

    M 2

    C 2,3

    LaserJet 5M

    C 3

    M 1

    M 1

    C 3

    LaserJet 5N

    C 3

    M 1

    M 2

    C 2,3

    LaserJet 5L

    C 3

    M 1

    -

    -

    LaserJet 5L-FS

    C 3

    M 1

    -

    -

    LaserJet 5P

    C 3

    M 1

    M 2

    C 2,3

    LaserJet 5MP

    C 3

    M 1

    M 1

    C 3

    LaserJet 5Se

    C 3

    M 1

    M 2

    C 2,3

    LaserJet 5Si

    C 3

    M 1

    M 2

    C 2,3

    LaserJet 5Si MX

    C 3

    M 1

    M 1

    C 3

    LaserJet 5Si NX

    C 3

    M 1

    M 2

    C 2,3

    Color LaserJet 5

    C 3

    C 1

    M 2

    C 2

    Color LaserJet 5M

    C 3

    C 1

    M 1

    C 1

    LaserJet 6L

    C 3

    M 1

    -

    -

    LaserJet 6LSe

    C 3

    M 1

    -

    -

    LaserJet 6Lxi

    C 3

    M 1

    -

    -

    LaserJet 6MP

    C 3

    M 1

    -

    -

    LaserJet 6P

    C 3

    M 1

    M 2

    C 2,3

    LaserJet 6PSe

    C 3

    M 1

    M 2

    C 2,3

    LaserJet 6Pxi

    C 3

    M 1

    M 2

    C 2,3

    LaserJet 4000

    C 3

    M 1

    M 1

    C 3

    LaserJet 4000T

    C 3

    M 1

    M 1

    C 3

    LaserJet 4000N

    C 3

    M 1

    M 1

    C 3

    LaserJet 4000TN

    C 3

    M 1

    M 1

    C 3

     

    LEGEND

    1 = Driver may be used for this device.
    2 = May be used if PostScript option is installed on printer.
    3 = May be used for plotting gray scale only, not full color.
    M = Drivers for monochrome plotting.
    C = Drivers for color/gray scale plotting.



    Image Plotting When plotting images, use the HPGLRTL.plt for best results and plot files smaller than those created with HPGL2 drivers. PostScript drivers (PS650C.plt, PSC650C.plt, PSCRIPT.plt, PSCRIPTC.plt) also give quality image output, but can create large plot files. These files are not limited to just image plotting, as they will plot vector data with high quality also. HPGL2 drivers (HPDJET.plt and HP650C.plt) plot vector data very well, but images plotted with the HPGL2 drivers will be grainy and may result in large plot files. HPLJET4V.plt and HPPCL5.plt will produce quality image output.

    Note:
    Images will not plot correctly with any driver unless the "hardware_raster/resolution=300" line in the .plt file is un commented. This is done by removing the semi-colon (;) at the beginning of the line. The wording of this line may vary slightly in some files (i.e. "software_raster/resolution=32").

    AskInga Article #20

    • Askinga
    • Article
    • Plotting Printing
    • Share
    • History
    • More
    • Cancel
    • CTennyson Created by Bentley Colleague CTennyson
    • When: Tue, May 27 2008 11:26 AM
    • Inga Morozoff Last revision by Bentley Colleague Inga Morozoff
    • When: Mon, Jun 14 2010 11:44 AM
    • Revisions: 5
    • Comments: 1
    Recommended
    Related
    Communities
    • Home
    • Getting Started
    • Community Central
    • Products
    • Support
    • Secure File Upload
    • Feedback
    Support and Services
    • Home
    • Product Support
    • Downloads
    • Subscription Services Portal
    Training and Learning
    • Home
    • About Bentley Institute
    • My Learning History
    • Reference Books
    Social Media
    •    LinkedIn
    •    Facebook
    •    Twitter
    •    YouTube
    •    RSS Feed
    •    Email

    © 2021 Bentley Systems, Incorporated  |  Contact Us  |  Privacy |  Terms of Use  |  Cookies