Autocad 2011 printing problem

[nealeedwards]

Hi - I'm using autocad 2011 and printing to a canon ipf610 - this has been fine for years. Now when I send a print it takes 2 - 3 minutes to send the job to printer which then takes more than 10 minutes to print. My last three prints are blank pages?? I have checked print settings and I don't think I'm doing anything different. Using windows7 sp1 64 bit computer and latest printer driver. Any help much appreciated as it's driving me crazy!

Further info: drawing file is 761KB and blank print is on A1 paper. Have just printed as per usual on A4 sheet?

Printing to A2 sheet took more than 1 minute to send job to printer and 5 minutes to start printing. Printing was successful but noticed the file size was 17.2 Mb?

[pendean · Accepted solution]

Something changed, what is it? Sometrhing changged unless it's file specific.
Can you plot this file to PDF? or DWF? ANy issues there?

[nealeedwards]

Thanks for your input Dean - you got me thinking. My drawing saved to pdf and dwf OK but it was the printing that was slow. I realised the only setting I had changed was choosing the drawing to print as a line drawing text 1200 dpi as opposed to the image setting. Changed this back to image 600dpi and all is back to normal! Great! Thanks again, Neale