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How to set up, preview, and print the current wire file.

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Set up the printer

How to choose the printer and set printer-related options.

Choose the scale and layout type of the drawing

How to use the set up and preview windows to control how the drawing appears on paper.

Change the layout of view boxes in the drawing

How to change the way the view boxes are arranged on the printout.

Change the scale of objects in the drawing

Use the Scale factor option to increase or decrease the overall size of the printed image.

Give layers individual print attributes

You can control the printed look of layers individually.

Change the look of the grid, locators, and information box

You can choose to show or hide the grid, set line widths, arrow size, information, and the font.

Preview images in RGB or CMYK

Your images can contain RGB colors that cannot be reproduced accurately on a CMYK printer. You can choose which color space to use for previewed images.

Print the current file

How to send the current wire file to the printer.

Print part of a large model on a single sheet of paper

Instead of spreading a large model across multiple sheets of paper, you can specify a sheet-sized area of the drawing to print.

Set up printers on UNIX systems

How to set up StudioTools to use PostScript Printer Description files on a UNIX system.

Print to a non-PostScript/HPGL2 printer

You can print to printers that do not support PostScript or HPGL2 with some restrictions.

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