.SID not printing as a background

[GreeneSWCD]

I'm having big issues trying to get a .SID picture to plot.  The .SID shows up in the print preview page, but then never makes it to the plotter.  Any ideas?

[Anonymous]

Out of curosity does the printer print eveything but the image, or does it not print anything at all?

[GreeneSWCD]

yep, it prints everything but the .sid.  It even shows the .sid in the print preview window. 

I was hoping it was something easy like the layer with the .sid in it was set not to plot, but no dice. 

I can get it to come through and print every once in a while after a restart.  So that just makes it even more mysterious.  Could it be a hardware problem?  Like the network cable from my computer to the plotter can't carry that much data? 

[doni49]

My first thought is that the plotter doesn't have enough memory to handle the image.

[antoniovinci]

1] plot to a .PDF file

2] open it with Adobe Reader: if the PDF contains the .SID background, send it to the plotter

We wait for the result, good luck!

[GreeneSWCD]

I've also tried plotting to pdf, but no luck there either.  The plot thickens....  (pun intended, ha!) 

[GreeneSWCD · Accepted solution]

As luck would have it, the day finally came to migrate my machine from XP to Windows 7. That day was yesterday. Well, today, I'm looking at a fresh copy of C3D 2012, an upgrade from 2010.

I just plotted my first drawing since the migration, and the .SID is coming through.

So, this is evidently going to be a non issue for me for at least a while, and hopefully forever.

Thanks for the help everyone.