Plot drawings with the MS print manager.

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August 19, 2015
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Hi there:

I'm new to this forum.

I'm looking for a simple way to plot our drawings from CREO.

With previous versions of PRO-E we used macro's to run plot configs with custom page sizes and plotter offsets.

If I currently just select print, then choose the plotter, It auto selects the correct ANSI size as from the drawing, however the printable area is much smaller.

Any help would be useful.

Thanks.

Christopher.

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Best answer by cschwill

I found the solution that worked for me was the following.

Copy one of the PCF files we currently have to a new file in the same folder as the other PCF files.

Remove the page size from with the PCF program.

Renamed the PCF file to a Standard, in our case just designjet750c.

Then added the plotter into the configuration editor.

The name placed into this file was the same as the PCF file, in this case designjet750c.

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TomU

23-Emerald IV

Define "much smaller".

There is an assumed 10mm unprintable border all the way around. This can be overridden with a line in the PCF (plotter configuration) file.

What sheet size is your drawing?
What paper size is being selected for output?
What version and build of Creo are you using?

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cschwill

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We are currently using CREO 2.0.

I am currently just working on plotting a B size landscape drawing.

Once I have a B size drawing selected, I chose the print, then select the plotter.

When I select the properties from the print pop-out control box, I see that it has auto selected the ANSI B (Tabloid) from the paper size options.

But to the right it displays the following.

Size is: 17 x 11in.

Printable area is: 16.61 x 9.66 in.

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TomU

23-Emerald IV

Do you have a PCF (plotter config file) defined for the MS Printer Manager? Typically it will be named "ms_print_mgr.pcf". If so, can you please post the contents. (Just open it with Notepad or any other text editor.)