Preview and Plot takes too long

[yosephk]

Sending a sheet to a plotter takes too long. I can not tell if it is Window's or AutoCAD's problem.

Your help will be greatly appreciated.

Yoseph

Land Desktop 2005
Windows XP Professional
Dell, Pentium 4
2.40 GHz, 512 MB RAM

[Anonymous]

ykassie wrote:
> Sending a sheet to a plotter takes too long. I can not tell if it is
> Window's or AutoCAD's problem.


Well, that depends. Are you using a local system printer? Networked
printer? PC3 file?

Also, what is your drawing like? Simple lines and arcs with text, or
complex hatches and aerial photography?



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Jason Hickey

http://beneaththelines.blogspot.com

[yosephk]

No Images. I am working on fully detailed sheet and printing to a network printer

[Anonymous]

ykassie wrote:
> No Images. I am working on fully detailed sheet and printing to a network printer

What does "fully detailed" mean? If there is a lot of data to recreate
with the plot spool, then it will take a long time. I've seen one
24x36 sheet take over 3 hours to spool on a HP1055CM plotter that had a
lot of VERY DENSE hatch patterns on it (basically a line hatch pattern
dense enough to emulate a solid hatch).

Your problem could be the result of any number of things....plot file
size, network issues, driver issues, print server issues, plotter
RAM/HDD issues, PC3 file, etc. You're not giving us much information
to go on.


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Jason Hickey

http://beneaththelines.blogspot.com

[Anonymous]

Jason:

Have you misplaced your Carnac cap?

BTW, nice BLOG!

Bill


"Jason Hickey" wrote in message
news:5097244@discussion.autodesk.com...
ykassie wrote:
> No Images. I am working on fully detailed sheet and printing to a network
printer

What does "fully detailed" mean? If there is a lot of data to recreate
with the plot spool, then it will take a long time. I've seen one
24x36 sheet take over 3 hours to spool on a HP1055CM plotter that had a
lot of VERY DENSE hatch patterns on it (basically a line hatch pattern
dense enough to emulate a solid hatch).

Your problem could be the result of any number of things....plot file
size, network issues, driver issues, print server issues, plotter
RAM/HDD issues, PC3 file, etc. You're not giving us much information
to go on.


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Jason Hickey

http://beneaththelines.blogspot.com

[yosephk]

I apologize for not being very specific. Yes, I am printing a pc3 files. My drawings include base drawing, plan and profile with Xref, cross sections, drainage maps etc. Usually I print 11x17 and 24x36. Printers are HP Laser Jet 5000 and HP Design Jet 1050 CM. I don't consider the plot file size as very big. I have some hatch patterns but are not solid.

Thanks

[Anonymous]

ykassie wrote:
> I apologize for not being very specific. Yes, I am printing a pc3
> files. My drawings include base drawing, plan and profile with Xref,
> cross sections, drainage maps etc. Usually I print 11x17 and 24x36.
> Printers are HP Laser Jet 5000 and HP Design Jet 1050 CM. I don't
> consider the plot file size as very big. I have some hatch patterns
>


Try this. In the printer properties, set your job to spool on the
computer first. If that doesn't work, then it could be an issue with
the printer(s) memory. Make sure they both have enough (we were
running 256 MB on our HP LJ 5000).

Could you email the drawing for review? I'll be in a class all day,
but may have some time to look at it during lunch.



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Jason Hickey

http://beneaththelines.blogspot.com

[davecos]

Ok... your BLOG just made my "favorites" list. 😄

[Anonymous]

Let's try another possible avenue, as well. You wouldn't happen to have
irregular shaped viewports, would you? Those will sometimes result in long
spool times.


wrote in message news:5097634@discussion.autodesk.com...
I apologize for not being very specific. Yes, I am printing a pc3 files. My
drawings include base drawing, plan and profile with Xref, cross sections,
drainage maps etc. Usually I print 11x17 and 24x36. Printers are HP Laser
Jet 5000 and HP Design Jet 1050 CM. I don't consider the plot file size as
very big. I have some hatch patterns but are not solid.

Thanks

[yosephk]

I tried to plot from modelspace. Still have the same problem.

[Anonymous]

Raster Design R3 has some issues as well. Do you have it installed on the
PC?

John

[bennybinny]

my hp laserjet cm1415 take too long to print autocad files,why it happens?

please give me exact details so that i can trouble shoot it perfectly.some files it takes more than 30 minutes,my os is windows 7 64 bit

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[antoniovinci]

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bennybinny wrote:

why it happens?

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It's hard to remotely debug such a trouble, sir: there are too many possible reasons.

If you plot to a PDF file instead of printing on paper, how much does it take?