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Printers and Plotters

Printers and Plotters

There are many different types of printers printer. Visit your printer manufacturer’s web
and plotters. In general, a printer is smaller, site for more information.
normally outputting 8½ x 11" (Letter or
ANSI A size), 8½ x 14" (Legal Size) or Options available with one driver may
sometimes as large as 11 x 17" (Tabloid or not be available with another. Printers
ANSI B size). and plotters supported in one operating
system may not be supported by the
Plotters are typically used to output larger manufacturer in another.
sheets of paper such as 17 x 22" (ANSI C), or
18” x 24” (ARCH C). Printing to File

Printer Drivers If your print service requires you to print to a
file that can be read by their plotter, you can
A printer driver is a program that allows a install that printer’s drivers on your system
printer to communicate with the rest of the and then use the Windows System Print
computer system. Drivers are usually created dialog to Print to File. See “Print View
by the printer manufacturer, are typically Dialog” on page 1334.
updated regularly, and can usually be
downloaded free of charge from the Please note that printing to a file is not an
manufacturer’s web site. option in the Mac System Print dialog.
In addition to interpreting between the Clearing Printer Information
printer and the rest of the system, printer
drivers save default page size, orientation, Some information specific to individual
margin size, and other information that Chief printers and plotters, such as available paper
Architect refers to unless you specify sizes, is saved with each plan and layout file.
otherwise. See “Print View Settings” on page You can select File> Print> Clear Printer
1320. Info to clear the printer-specific information
stored with the plan or layout file.
If you experience printing problems,
consider installing updated drivers for your

Printing Defaults

You can print to any printer or plotter that is Drawing Sheet Setup
supported on your operating system and can
specify the current printer at any time in When any orthographic view is active,
either the Drawing Sheet Setup or Print you can specify its Drawing Sheet
View dialog. size, orientation, margins, its printed
Drawing Scale, and more in the Drawing

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