Printing issues

[billk89]

I have a new design jet , that works on all my computers expect the one. So I knows it’s something in the os’s side that could be causing issues, hooked it up to usb and still the same , we know its not network issues, also reinstalled the driver still the same.
What happens is that it seems to hang in the que when printing from autocad , then when we print in adobe it gets to almost the end but cuts the job off short.

Any ideas thanks
Bill

 

[donb01]

I had this problem with ours (200 year old 750C) and the problem was the unit did not come standard with enough memory to render everything we wanted to send to it.

Problems included sitting there saying 'processing' with the data light blinking and then just going back to ready after so many minutes, only printing partial pages, etc.

We added another big chunk of memory and it fixed our problem. YMMV.

 

[donb01]

One more thing that can affect this I thought of as an afterthought - there are 2 different ways to render your prints (settable in the printer options, ours is under advanced). It can either create the printer image on the computer if the printer doesn't have enough memory, or create the image in the printer itself. Check to make sure that PC has the same amount of memory available as the PCs that work. If not, check your printer settings and try telling it to render it on the printer instead of the computer (requires more memory in the printer). If it's already doing that tell it to do it on the computer instead.

 

[billk89]

You could be right the funny thing is though this machien is the fastest one we have with 2 gigs of mem, but its not to say that somthing is eating up the memory, going to have a look

Thx
bill

 

[gbaughma]

Try turning your printer down to "Draft" resolution/speed, and see if it completes the job.

If it does, then you need to add memory to the PRINTER. The print jobs are too large for it.

I have the same situation with a DesignJet 500, when I'm doing large (say 42" by 10' long plots); I have to turn the print quality down or it drops fonts.



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[billk89]

Yea it got stuck again restared the spooler and then it printted but cut it short again ,

Somthing on that computer anyway
ill keep digging

thx for the posts