Page setups & network printers

[Anonymous]

Morning all,

our IT dept has moved all networked printers to a different server, now making every page setup in every dwg (thouuuusands) redundant since they are looking for the old address for printers. The IT guys tell me there is no way to setup a virtual routing map from old to new printer server since old server is NT (??).

Am I assuming the worst ?! Do I have to run a series of scripts to strip out the old page setups & then force new ones to all dwgs. Is there any other way to update the printer references in page setups on a multiple directory, 1000's dwgs scale ? I want to keep the page setups useable so we don't waste time importing updated ones each time we plot.

ANY help is greatly appreciated - I have 1 week till they turn off the old printer server !!!

cheers TJK

[robincapperw]

see this thread on the AutoCAD Dg "Page setup Script"

http://discussion.autodesk.com/thread.jspa?messageID=4842359? Message was edited by: robincapper

[Anonymous]

Do your page setups use the system printers or the pc3 files?
If you use the pc3 files (which you should be) then you can simply remake them with the same printer name and the new path.

[Anonymous]

wrote in message news:4842328@discussion.autodesk.com...
Morning all,


Set up a lisp that will import your new page setups whenever you open a
drawing.

[Anonymous]

I agree - this is actually how we also deal with printers between two
offices. As long as the .pc3 filename remains the same, it works fine.

John

wrote in message news:4842375@discussion.autodesk.com...
Do your page setups use the system printers or the pc3 files?
If you use the pc3 files (which you should be) then you can simply remake
them with the same printer name and the new path.

[Anonymous]

pc3's typically reference a specific named printer. If your printer
names remain the same in the windows control panel, the pc3 files should
work just fine. so...if your geek added a new printer, via control
panel, that points to the new location of the server, note the name of
your old printer, rename it to "yourprintername-OLD" and rename the new
one to the name of the old one and all should be transparent.
DOes this make sense?

[Anonymous]

Thanks all.......the pc3 settings is obviously the way to go now that I'm reminded - feeling a bit slack for forgetting about these - haven't used them since the old style R14 plotting days.

cheers
Talbot

[Anonymous]

Then you have gone paperless and everybody used a viewer?

W. Kirk Crawford
Rochester Hills, Michigan