Canon 2159B002 user manual Printing CAD Drawings, HP-GL/2 Printing

Printing CAD Drawings

Printing CAD Drawings

Printing CAD Drawings

Using this printer, you can print ne lines and text clearly and sharply. It’s easy to produce highly precise drawings from CAD applications.

Note

•In Windows, you can print highly precise drawings using the provided imagePROGRAF HDI Driver for AutoCAD/AutoCAD LT.

For details on the HDI driver, see the HDI Driver Guide .

For instructions on CAD printing, refer to the following topics, as appropriate for your computer and operating system.

•Printing Line Drawings and Text (Windows) (→P.252)

•Printing Line Drawings and Text (Mac OS X) (→P.254)

•Printing Line Drawings and Text (Mac OS 9) (→P.256)

HP-GL/2 Printing

This printer supports the GARO language as well as HP-GL/2 and HP RTL (*1) emulation. (*2) When printing from applications that support HP-GL/2 output, specify HP-GL/2 in the application’s plotter output settings.

Note

•For instructions on conguring these settings, refer to the software documentation.

The printer automatically switches to the corresponding processing when GARO, HP-GL/2, or HP RTL jobs are received. Congure the settings especially for HP-GL/2 emulation on the printer control panel. (→P.50) This printer can emulate the following printers.

Emulated Printers

Canon	W3000 and W3050 (*3)
Hewlett-Packard	Designjet 450c, Designjet 750c Plus, and Designjet 750c

*1: HP-GL/2:Hewlett-Packard Graphics Language 2; HP RTL:Hewlett-Packard Raster Transfer Language

*2: It may not be possible to print jobs with excessively large amounts of data correctly.

*3: Nesting and layout templates are not supported.

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