Printing Guide
Printing Guide
Printing Guide

Submitting printed output to a printer

You can submit printed output to any printer on your network, whether or not it is physically connected to your PC. MicroStation lets you use a variety of methods to submit printed output (or print files) to the preferred printer on your system. These include:
To send a print file to a printer through a parallel port
  1. Open a DOS window (session).

  2. At the system command line, enter copy /b <print_file> <port>
    where:
    print_file — is the print file to be sent.
    port — is the parallel port on your system to which the printer is connected; for example, lpt1: or lpt2: (Wintel systems) or prn (DEC Alpha).
    /b — switch specifying that the file is binary.

To send printed output to a printer through a parallel port without creating a print file
  1. From the File menu, choose Print.
    The Print dialog box opens.

  2. In the dialog box, adjust the controls as desired.

  3. In the dialog box´s icon bar, click the Print icon.
    or
    From the dialog box´s File menu, choose Print.

    The Save Print As dialog box opens.

  4. In the Name field, key in the name of the parallel port, for example, lpt1: or lpt2:(Wintel systems) or prn (DEC Alpha).

  5. Click OK.

To send printed output directly to a printer (without creating a print file) from the Key-in window
  1. In the Key-in window, key in
    PRINT <configuration | VIEW view_number | FENCE <output_device>
    where:
    configuration — identifies the print configuration file upon which to base the printed output.
    view_number — is the view number where VIEW is specified.
    Output_device — specifies the destination printer. For example, lpt2: or \\printman\laserjet1. Output_device may be omitted when “printer.plt” is the printer driver.

To print the contents of a view from the Key-in window
  1. In the Key-in window, key in PRINT BOUNDARY <view_number>.
    This tells the printing process which view to print.

  2. In the Key-in window, key in PRINT EXECUTE.
    This sends the print to the system printer.

To send the printed output directly to the system printer
  1. From the File menu, choose Print.
    The Print dialog box opens.

  2. From the Printer and Paper Size option menu, choose Windows Printer.
    or
    From the dialog box´s File menu, choose Select Windows Printer.

  3. (Optional) Adjust other printing settings as required.

  4. In the Print dialog box´s icon bar, click the Print icon.
    or
    From the Print dialog box´s File menu, choose Print.