Task Scheduler - Printing Pains

[Anonymous]

I cannot get Task Scheduler to print anything out the way I need it.

I'm trying to batch plot a folder full of IDW's to monochrome 11x17 PDF.
These will be populated into a doc distribution system. I have both Acrobat
4.05 and PDF995.

First off, I see no options for setting all colours to black and removing
lineweights (as exist in the Inventor print dialog). When I select either
PDF printer, I have no setting for 11x17 (or D size which would be
acceptable as well). I have 11x17 defined and set to default in the printer
preferences. I have about 6 network printers I am mapped to, those also
yield unexpected results. When I point at an HP 5500hdn it recognizes that
11x17 is available... when I point at a Lexmark W810, it does not show 11x17
as an option even though the printer has this size available.

It gets even stranger when I look at the tray options... the W810 is showing
tray options that resemble the 5500hdn, while the 5500hdn show tray options
that resemble none of the printers I have. This is very frustrating. Will
there be an SP to fix this? Printing 100's of sheets manually is such a
blatant waste of time.

Even considering the DWF route is failing as there is no checkbox for
monochrome printing. I need monochrome in order for plots to display
correctly in the document distribution system.

Andrew

[Anonymous]

Hello Andrew,

Yes i understand your pain in printing 100's of sheets manually.

Please be assured that we are looking at this problem. Unfortunately this
may not be availabe in the service pack.

Your request is definately noted though.

Thanks,

Arun

wrote in message news:4916915@discussion.autodesk.com...
I cannot get Task Scheduler to print anything out the way I need it.

I'm trying to batch plot a folder full of IDW's to monochrome 11x17 PDF.
These will be populated into a doc distribution system. I have both Acrobat
4.05 and PDF995.

First off, I see no options for setting all colours to black and removing
lineweights (as exist in the Inventor print dialog). When I select either
PDF printer, I have no setting for 11x17 (or D size which would be
acceptable as well). I have 11x17 defined and set to default in the printer
preferences. I have about 6 network printers I am mapped to, those also
yield unexpected results. When I point at an HP 5500hdn it recognizes that
11x17 is available... when I point at a Lexmark W810, it does not show 11x17
as an option even though the printer has this size available.

It gets even stranger when I look at the tray options... the W810 is showing
tray options that resemble the 5500hdn, while the 5500hdn show tray options
that resemble none of the printers I have. This is very frustrating. Will
there be an SP to fix this? Printing 100's of sheets manually is such a
blatant waste of time.

Even considering the DWF route is failing as there is no checkbox for
monochrome printing. I need monochrome in order for plots to display
correctly in the document distribution system.

Andrew

[Anonymous]

Thanks for the reply Arun.

I would also like to note that it would be handy to have the actual printer
properties available rather than populating and Autodesk sheet size and
source tray dialog (this is where the problems seem to occur). In other
words, make it just like the normal Inventor print function.

This is very critical to us.

Thanks again,
Andrew


"Arun Srikantaiah (Autodesk)" wrote in
message news:4917427@discussion.autodesk.com...
Hello Andrew,

Yes i understand your pain in printing 100's of sheets manually.

Please be assured that we are looking at this problem. Unfortunately this
may not be availabe in the service pack.

Your request is definately noted though.

Thanks,

Arun

wrote in message news:4916915@discussion.autodesk.com...
I cannot get Task Scheduler to print anything out the way I need it.

I'm trying to batch plot a folder full of IDW's to monochrome 11x17 PDF.
These will be populated into a doc distribution system. I have both Acrobat
4.05 and PDF995.

First off, I see no options for setting all colours to black and removing
lineweights (as exist in the Inventor print dialog). When I select either
PDF printer, I have no setting for 11x17 (or D size which would be
acceptable as well). I have 11x17 defined and set to default in the printer
preferences. I have about 6 network printers I am mapped to, those also
yield unexpected results. When I point at an HP 5500hdn it recognizes that
11x17 is available... when I point at a Lexmark W810, it does not show 11x17
as an option even though the printer has this size available.

It gets even stranger when I look at the tray options... the W810 is showing
tray options that resemble the 5500hdn, while the 5500hdn show tray options
that resemble none of the printers I have. This is very frustrating. Will
there be an SP to fix this? Printing 100's of sheets manually is such a
blatant waste of time.

Even considering the DWF route is failing as there is no checkbox for
monochrome printing. I need monochrome in order for plots to display
correctly in the document distribution system.

Andrew

[Anonymous]

Is this fixed yet? I am running into same problem!

[BrianBolam4894]

I'm also having this problem. Any word when it will be fixed?

[evan]

Hey folks,

I've been having this problem for a while now. Autodesk has done their part by acknowledging your pain. You can't honestly hope for a solution also, do you? Take your pick - a solution or empathy?

Seriously can we just printing to work. This should NOT be an issue at this point in PC history! Jeeze! We do need these tools, Someone thought they'd be useful. Maybe someone printing more a handful of prints at a time. 

I'm going to send an invoice to Autodesk for all the expense due to either waisted time, wasted paper trying to get this utility to work, toner etc, etc!

[karthur1]

If your printing files from an assembly... take a look at this.  This is the best way that I have found to do it

http://forums.autodesk.com/t5/Autodesk-Inventor-Customization/Printing-all-drawings-of-an-assembly-f...

Curtis W. wrote a ilogic code to do this if you prefer that.  Look at post #30 in the above link.