Allplan raster drivers

Allplan has its own raster drivers for HP DesignJet printers that support Hewlett Packard’s (HP’s) printer language called RTL (Raster Transfer Language) or that use HP's Raster Language Library (RasterLib). These printer drivers are especially useful if you want to print large-format drawings and layouts. Apart from being very reliable, raster drivers speed up printing and produce high-quality printouts. You can only use a raster driver if a Windows printer driver of the same printer type is installed.

The HP-RasterLib driver family optimizes the use of HP's new printer series, enabling you to harness all options provided by the devices. Compared with RTL drivers, HP-RasterLib drivers are more precise.
With this driver set, you can specify the level of quality depending on the paper type. Various levels are available for each paper type. In addition, there are a number of advanced options, for example, economy mode. The options that are actually available to you vary depending on the driver selected.

Note: Both an RTL driver and a RasterLib driver are available for some devices. Basically, you can use either driver; however, the results can differ due to the color profiles used. Therefore, never switch drivers while you are working on a project.

When you have selected a raster driver, the program does not use the Windows printer driver to create output data for the printer. However, the program still uses the Windows printer driver to query the properties of the printer. These include paper size, print resolution, print quality and hardware interfaces.

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