Printing in batch mode

Task area Layout Editor

When you have selected several layouts for printing in the Print Layouts tool, these layouts will be printed in batch mode.

If a Windows driver is selected for the current layout, you can specify the output device, paper format and print profile you want to use. Thus, you can send some layouts straight to a printer and create print files for the other layouts.

Windows drivers are printer drivers delivered with the Windows operating system or by the device manufacturer. In Allplan, either Windows drivers or Allplan vector drivers can be used for printing.

A printer driver is a program that translates graphical commands into control characters (for example, HPGL, PostScript) for a particular printer. You can use Windows drivers or Allplan vector drivers (in connection with output channels) as printer drivers in Allplan.

If you have selected an Allplan vector driver in the current layout, the program uses this driver to print all the layouts that are part of the batch. Depending on the selected setting, all layouts are sent straight to the printer or several print files are created.

Allplan vector drivers are printer drivers that come with Allplan; they are available for certain devices. Before you can use Allplan vector drivers, you must define at least one output channel in the Services application.

What do you want to do?

Print several layouts with Windows drivers

Create several print files with Allplan vector drivers