my paper plot is larger than 24 x 36

[CAD_SNOOK]

Hi:  I'm using 2011 and printing to an HP designjet 500.  My 24"x36" sheets are coming out 25-1/4"x36", too much paper top and bottom.  I am using the Oversize ArchD page setup as I have lots of info on the sheets and have used this size on Oce plotters before without difficulty.  I am using the standard .pc3 driver.I am not a Designjet expert and am wondering if there is a software setting to adjust?

[pendean]

ARCHD not ARCHD-Oversized would fix your issue.
Oversized = larger
Previous OCE use is not relevant with your HP.

[CAD_SNOOK]

Thanks for the reply. Odd that we've sent pdfs to services and other firms
and no one has complained about our sheets. Even a pdf of a sheet brought
into cad in model space shows as 24" x 36" exactly. Odd also that this is
the first I have seen this in 6 months of working with this plotter. Is
this a quirk of the HP plotters? I have always used the Oversize option
when our sheets get dense with information. Thanks--Nick





Nick Lawrus
*nlawrus@goldenlandarch.com *



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[pendean]

Unless you actively set it otherwise, all PDF viewers are set to rescale to fit a page: you've probably just been printing to paper out of scale all these years.
Maybe you all finally fixed it or your HP driver is better serving your needs.

[CAD_SNOOK]

I don't think that is the problem. We're generating the pdf from the
Publish command in AutoCad and I imported the pdf into model space and
checked the size. My understanding is the the Oversize in Oversize Arch D
enlarges the printable area of the sheet. That may be incorrect or at
least with how the HP handles sheet sizes.





Nick Lawrus
*nlawrus@goldenlandarch.com *



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[dgorsman]

Print sizes include margins, which aren't discussed much.  In most cases, the paper margin would in fact be the distance between the border and the trim marks; proper printing would be set to have ZERO margins.  That may have been the use of that particular "oversize" moniker.  Quite a few people accept the basic print settings so they get not only the margins on their own paper but the margins in the printer as well.  When "Scaled to fit" this can result in slightly different sizes.