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Hewlett-Packard print drivers

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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").

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