Printer Config (*.pcf)

[dannerj]

I've been out of Pro-E for a while and have founf myself in a somewhat administrator role. I was wondering if anyone can help me edit a pcf file so that when I click print from Pro-E, and select my certain pcf it will print automatically without asking me which printer to choose. The printer is on a network, and the only adress I can find is \\server\printer


I tried putting the line "plotter_command WINDOWS_PRINT_MANAGER\\server\printer" in there, but I'm not getting any results.


* \\server\printer are my actual server and printer names.


Any help would be appreciated, I've been through this forum a ton, and Pro-E's knowledge base, and can't seem to get anything to work.

 

[dr_gallup]

Here is an example that works for me:

plotter_command windows_print_manager \\AB\HP8000

 

[jnoval]

You don't have to use windows printmanager. If you ex. have e printer that understand postscript then you do it this way:


plotter POSTSCRIPT
button_name A3-DEV
button_help Print to any printer that supports generic postscript format.
plot_drawing_format YES default
plot_segmented NO default
plot_roll_media NO default
plot_label NO default
plot_handshake software default
create_separate_files NO default
plot_with_panzoom NO default
rotate_plotting NO default
allow_file_naming YES
plot_name NO
interface_quality 3 default
plot_destination printer default
plotter_command print /d:\\dk23s08\ec-devel-hp5100
pen_table_file P:\pro_stds\plot_config_dir\ms_print.pnt
plot_sheets all
paper_size_allowed A3 A4
paper_size A3
paper_outline NO default
plot_clip NO default
plot_area NO default


The paper_size is also important. I have a one pcf file for every papersize. The print is control my mapkeys:


p4: print A4 size
p3: print A3 size
...


This way it is possible to print ex. a A2 on A3 paper


I just haven't figure out how to setup a pcf file to on a printer with paper in both A4 and A3. Just select the correct size from postscript file and if the size is to big use A3. The pcf file listed here will print any size on A3.

 

[dannerj]

Thanks for all your help, I got it to work, except that I can't get it to print to B Size.


When I had that problem before I discovered that I had to set the paper size on the printer selection menu to "Tabloid"


I tried setting the default in my printer preferences to "Tabloid" but that didn't work either, and "Tabloid" is not a paper size in the configure menu.


Any Ideas?





Thanks.

 

[robertib]

Rather than edit the pcf file directly, you can edit it in ProE & save it to the loadpoint\text\plot_config directory.


In the configure options you can set the paper size - this may solve your problem (when you select your pcf, you can hit the configure button & change the paper size, etc).

 

[Dell_Boy]

If you edit the ms_print_mgr.pcf file in your
<loadpoint>\text\plot_config folder correctly you can get it to
print to your "default" printer of choice with your desired "default"
settings without having to select anything. This "default" does not
have to have anything in common with the Windows default printer
settings



DB