• Windows printer — The Windows printer driver is used. When this option is selected, clicking the Configure Windows Printer icon to the right navigates directly to the Windows printer's driver Preferences dialog, which lets you change the Windows printer's settings. The display label of the printer driver configuration file is always indicated in the printer list, while the name of the Windows printer driver is displayed immediately below.
  
• Bentley driver — The currently selected Bentley printer driver is used. Clicking the Select Printer Driver Configuration File icon to the right opens the Select Printer Driver Configuration File dialog, which lets you choose a different printer driver. The display label of the printer driver configuration file is always indicated in the printer list, while the name of the Bentley printer driver is displayed immediately below.
  

(When Bentley driver is selected) When the Allow paper size editing check box is on in the Print Preferences dialog, the Paper size fields appear. You can change the size of the selected form.

If off, only the printable portion of the sheet is considered.

For example, when printing to a letter size sheet, typically 8.5 x 11 inches, the maximum print size may be only 8 x 10.5 inches. If full sheet is enabled, the maximum print size is the size of the sheet (8.5 x 11 inches).

When Full is enabled some geometry may be clipped (by the printer) if it falls into the unprintable area around the edge of the paper.

This control lets you quickly reverse the X and Y values of the Paper Size property without having to edit the printer driver configuration file. This is necessary for the printer.pltcfg, and helpful for some PostScript to PDF workflows, but not desirable for most HP-GL/2 and HP/RTL workflows. To reduce confusion and to prevent any accidental swapping of the X and Y sizes, the orientation control is disabled for the following Bentley printer driver configuration files: hprtl.pltcfg, hpglrtl.pltcfg, and pscript.pltcfg.

• Send to printer — (Available only when Windows driver is selected) Sends the print to the selected printer, using the selected printer driver.
• Create plot file — Creates a plot file. When printing with a Bentley printer driver, Create plot file is the only available choice. If the printer driver configuration file is configured to write directly to an LPT port, this is equivalent to Create plot file. If you want Create plot file to be the default, change the File Name property in the printer driver configuration file.
• Create metafile — (Available only when Windows driver is selected) Creates a Windows enhanced metafile (.emf). If you want Create metafile to be the default, change the Default Create Metafile property in a .pltcfg file.
• Send to InterPlot — (Enabled when an InterPlot printer is selected) Sends the print to a ProjectWise InterPlot Server.

• View — Contents of the view number as shown in the View setting.
• Fence — The print area is defined by a fence.
• Sheet — The print area is defined by the sheet definition.

By default, Rasterized mode will be turned on when shaded display styles are detected. If Rasterized is unchecked, the shaded display styles will print using the non-rasterized visible edge path. The Rasterized check box will be disabled if the view contains any point clouds, or when printing to a printer driver that does not support Rasterized mode (e.g., HP-GL/2). If you are printing a 3D design model to a PDF printer driver and the Print to 3D check box is set, the Rasterized check box is not visible.

Rasterized print mode is the best way to achieve complete fidelity between the view display and the printed output. It is the only way to achieve certain effects such as anti-aliasing and transparency. For very dense drawings, rasterized print mode also uses less memory than non-rasterized mode.

When creating a rasterized print, the product breaks up the view into many tiles and makes multiple passes over the DGN file to rasterize each tile using the graphics hardware. Larger print sizes require more tiles, and thus take longer to print and produce larger plot file sizes.

The output of a rasterized print is a print file consisting entirely of raster tiles. When printing a vector DGN file, a rasterized print file is usually larger than a non-rasterized print file. However, if the DGN file contains raster background images spanning the entire view, using the rasterized print mode may produce a smaller print file.

When wireframe views are plotted in non-rasterized print mode, the product builds a display list containing the entire contents of the DGN file in order to perform sorting (in software) based on either 3D Z coordinates, 2D display priority, or pen table priority. For very dense drawings, or drawings containing large amounts of raster data, this display list can sometimes run the process out of virtual address space. In rasterized print mode, the sorting is performed by the graphics hardware. There is no need for a display list, and the system memory footprint is much smaller—especially when printing at large sizes.

In a non-rasterized print, the application of line caps and joins to vectors is performed by the printer driver. Some printer drivers support more cap and join styles than others, and their appearance may vary depending on the printer firmware. In a rasterized print, the line caps and joins are applied by the graphics hardware and the results are embedded in the raster tiles—ensuring consistent appearance when printing to any printer driver or printer.

Printer driver configuration files provide an option (Default Output Mode) for setting the default Rasterized check box for the Print dialog and Print Organizer . You can force the Rasterized check box on or off (in which case the control becomes disabled), or mark it as preferred on or off (in which case the Rasterized check box is set to the desired value when the printer driver configuration is loaded, but can be changed afterwards). By default, the printer driver configuration is set to "No Preference," and the Rasterized check box defaults to the most recently used setting (from the user preferences) for the Print dialog and to non-rasterized mode for Print Organizer.

Additionally, you can define the default scale display using a configuration variable, MS_PLT_SCALE_METHOD. Valid values for this configuration variable are:

• 1 — default scale display is paper units to master units.
• 2 — default scale display is master units to paper units.

With this configuration variable set, the scale display still may be changed via the Method setting in the Scale Assistant. When the Print dialog is closed and then reopened, however, it will revert to that set by the configuration variable.

• None — No rotation is applied to the printed output.
• Rotate 90 cw — A rotation of 90° in the clockwise direction is applied to the printed output.
• Rotate 90 ccw — A rotation of 90° in the counterclockwise direction is applied to the printed output.
• 180 — A rotation of 180° is applied to the printed output.

• None — No mirroring is applied to the printed output.
• Vertical — The printed output is mirrored about the X axis.
• Horizontal — The printed output is mirrored about the Y axis.
• Both — The printed output is mirrored about the X and Y axes.

Clicking the Edit Pen Table File icon opens the Modify Pen Table dialog. The configuration variable MS_PENTABLE_EDITOR can be used to disable the editing control.

Clicking the Detach Pen Table File icon detaches the current pen table file.

Clicking the Edit Design Script File icon opens Notepad, which is used to modify an existing design script. The configuration variable MS_DESIGNSCRIPT_EDITOR can be used to disable the editing control, and to change the editing application for design script files.

Clicking the Detach Design Script File icon detaches the current design script file.

• you have selected the PDF printer driver
• the printer driver is configured to print to file (i.e. not a printer share or IP address)
• The active WorkSet is assigned a ProjectWise Project.
• You have access to the Project Share folder

When selected, the PDF file is first written to the local drive. Then, the CONNECTION Client sends the file to the ProjectWise Share in a separate background process. The file name on the ProjectWise Share will be the same as the one on the local drive. If a file with the same name already exists in the ProjectWise Share, it will be overwritten.

When the selected print destination is a file instead of a Windows printer, IP address, or UNC share, the button text changes to Print to File. When selected, the Save Print As dialog opens, to let you save the print file to disk for later submission to the required printer.

Effect is the same as clicking the Print icon or the File > Print menu item.

The .ini file format does not contain the design file specification, therefore, the user must remember the design file name, load it into MicroStation, and then open the print .ini file. If the .ini file does not match the currently loaded design, an error is produced only if the design dimensions are different.

The .pset file format does store the design file specification, and that design is automatically loaded into MicroStation when the print dialog opens the .pset file. If the design file cannot be loaded, the .pset open attempt is aborted.

Effect is the same as clicking the Preview icon.

When the selected printer is not the Windows printer, the Save Print As dialog opens, to let you save the print file to disk for later submission to the required printer.

Effect is the same as clicking the Print icon.

Effect is the same as clicking the Update from View icon.

Effect is the same as clicking the Print Attributes icon.

(Enabled only when using a PDF printer driver) Opens the 3D Plotting Options dialog, which lets you define the settings for 3D content in a PDF file.