Publishing and Printing with AutoCAD - Seventh 7

CHAPTER 30: CONFIGURATION OF PRINTING

Once the paper space is designed, the printing process requires that we define and configure the printers or plotters we are going to use, the layout styles, which contain the criteria with which the objects will be printed, and finally , the page setup of each presentation.
Let us therefore see all these elements to carry out the impression.

30.1 Tracer Configuration

Autocad can recognize and use the printers that are installed in Windows. But configuring the printers, and especially the plotters, or, as they are more commonly known, "plotters", specifically for this program, allows you to obtain better printing results. For this, Autocad offers a wizard to register the printing devices and to configure them.
For this, we can use the menu of the application and in it, the options Print-Manage plotters. The Output tab in the Trace section also has a button called Plotter Manager. Another way for the same task is to use the Add or Configure tracers button on the Plot and Publish tab of the Options dialog box that we used earlier. Any of these options opens the Plotters folder, where you will find the wizard for canning new plotters or printers, or we can double-click on any of the icons of devices already created to modify their settings.

Once a printer or plotter has been added, a new icon is generated in this folder, that is, a file with the extension “.PC3” that will contain the information of this configuration. Therefore, by double clicking on any of these icons, we can change the configuration. The most important parameters to define here, and which depend on the specific equipment the user has, are the data to print vector graphics, raster graphics and how the text will be printed.

As we mentioned in the video, we can generate several “.PC3” files even for the same printer, making each of them contain small changes with respect to the others.
In the section 30.3 we will see how we use these files when the page is configured in a presentation.

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