HP600 plotter on Vista

[Pointdump]

Hi,
HP no longer supports my C2848A/HP600 Designjet plotter on Vista, so I can't download the latest driver. However, in Civil 3D's plotter manager I see my plotter. Trouble is, I don't know what to do about it. Help doesn't explain how to use the plotter manager. To further complicate matters, I have Civil 3D 2010 on my laptop which does not have a parallel printer port. My plotter has a network card, an HP JetDirect 400N, which HP does have a driver available for Vista.
Anybody out there still using an old 600 DesignJet?

Dave

[hankm]

You are out of luck my friend. Their are no  new driver support for your HP Desighnjet 600 plotter for Windows Vista. The last driver support was for windows XP. I have win7 prof. x64 and the only way that I plot is I installed Microsoft Virtual XP mode that comes free with anyone with win7 prof. & up. The only other way is to plot from an old computer with win XP & below. This is the only way....I looked for about 8 months & nothing with win vista & above.....

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@Pointdump wrote:
Hi,
HP no longer supports my C2848A/HP600 Designjet plotter on Vista, so I can't download the latest driver. However, in Civil 3D's plotter manager I see my plotter. Trouble is, I don't know what to do about it. Help doesn't explain how to use the plotter manager. To further complicate matters, I have Civil 3D 2010 on my laptop which does not have a parallel printer port. My plotter has a network card, an HP JetDirect 400N, which HP does have a driver available for Vista.
Anybody out there still using an old 600 DesignJet?

Dave

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[tom]

From the HP driver download site try the XP Pro 64 bit driver for the HP Designjet 1000 HP-GL/2 version V4.84.  It worked for my DesignJet 600 C2848A under Windows 7 64 bit with AutoCAD 2011.  Please pass this along as there are a lot of us that can't buy a new plotter right now.