Microstation V8

In Microstation V8 I can't setup scale for one of windows printers.
The secend one is working properly.
When I setup scale for print/plot it changes scale on screen but still
prints in its own scale as determined by fence.
For examle I put fence and it shows that the max. scale is 460, if I put 500
it is changed and accepted on the screen, but still printing in 460.
I tried with drivers, but everyone and even default driver does the same.

Regards, Ivana

 

Look at the printable area is it the same?
Go to www.askinga.com
look at Dave Preston Articles about printers and plotting to scale he helped
me alot.
I found that from printer to printer there are lot of differences between
the same paper sizes enough to prevent being able to truely plot to map
scale prefered scales.
The only way I could fix it was to create concentric polygons 1000xs bigger
than real life based on the worst case smallest printable areas for each
printer then I had a basis for making sheet layouts.

I have just one tool I created it is a cell with concentric rectangles all
with common origins at the SW corner, their sizes are defined by the
printable areas for all the different sheet sizes on my most used printers
but the small ones are the worst case printer. So all would fit to scale on
true paper sizes on the worst printer.

I place this cell at the desired scale ie 1:50 (thats 1:50 000 because I
draw in metres not mm)
This immediatly lets me know what every sheet at 1;50,000 ( from smallest
to bigest) would cover of my design plane.
I can then choose to place my sheet cell over the top of this by interactive
and it then is 1:50,000.
Then I delete the first cell.
Now when I plot it comes out at the at the right sheet size and right scale
to 3 decimal places!
... so two cells fits all sheet sizes and scales.
Lorys