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Plotting from Autocad

  • 06-02-2008 7:28pm
    #1
    Feelgood
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,191 ✭✭✭


    Hey folks,

    Having a slight issue with a customer...

    Basically he bought a HP Deksjet 450C Plotter to print drawings from Autocad (V. 2004). I installed the plotter via Windows (XP Pro SP2) using the most recent drivers from the HP website and over LPT cable connection.

    Now the drawings are printing perfectly fine except I have to fiddle around with the settings in Cad everytime I print something, the problem is that its taking approx 15-20 minutes to get the drawing to spool to the printer(internal 32Mb memory). The average drawing being sent to the printer is about 2.5mb..

    Is there something I need to tweak in Cad to sort this out?. Does Cad happyily work away with the windows printer drivers or do I need to create some sort of Cad profile for it?.

    Cheers for any info, totally lost on this one....


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  • #2
    Capt'n Midnight
    Moderators, Recreation & Hobbies Moderators, Science, Health & Environment Moderators, Technology & Internet Moderators Posts: 93,552 Mod ✭✭✭✭Capt'n Midnight


    if all else fails then install pdfcreator from sourcefourge
    print the cad drawing to pdf and the use acrobat or foxit to print the pdf. If nothing else it will tell you if it's CAD or printer problem.

    did you mean Deskjet A4 or Designjet A0 ?
    both are Parallel port IIRC so check that the Port is setup as EPP/ECP in the BIOS or it will be slow


  • #3
    Jimbo
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,379 ✭✭✭Jimbo


    No expert but,

    Sounds like the printer is usng the PCs memory to spool.
    In our HP program, theres an option to either use computer memory or printer memory. If you change it to printer memory, it should work AFAIK


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