Printer reverts upon closing of ACADA 2024

[Logos_Atum]

Hello there,

somehow the printer config as well as custom paper settings keep getting reverted to standard, despite of saving a preset. Anything to take into account?

Have a great day

Daniel

[Logos_Atum]

Hello there,

somehow the printer config as well as custom paper settings keep getting reverted to standard, despite of saving a preset. Anything to take into account?

Have a great day

Daniel

[pendean]

Can you provide way more details please? Your post is too generic.
Printer is...?
Driver is....?
Your OS is...?
You are connected to this printer how?
Do you have other printers/plotter that have this issue?
"saving a preset" means....?
What is "revert to standard" exactly? Isn't that just a setting you can change anytime anyway in that driver?

[pendean]

Can you provide way more details please? Your post is too generic.
Printer is...?
Driver is....?
Your OS is...?
You are connected to this printer how?
Do you have other printers/plotter that have this issue?
"saving a preset" means....?
What is "revert to standard" exactly? Isn't that just a setting you can change anytime anyway in that driver?

[Logos_Atum]

Hello there,

of course if it helps, (even though it keeps happening with any printer) it is a HP design Jet T730. The driver is the latest HP driver, HPGL and PC3 are listed in AutCAD´s printer/ plotter section. There´s an issue with not cutting the print as soon as it´s finished too, but that´s probably driver related. OS is Win11Pro, latest drivers and patches as of today.

The presets, as saved in AutoCADs print dialoge, the page settings/ setup you can customize and save settings to. Which does not work for some reason. All I can do is set it to the last plots configuration. It´s connected via a LAN.

If you need to know more, I´ll be glad to answer

Kind regards

Daniel

[Logos_Atum]

Hello there,

of course if it helps, (even though it keeps happening with any printer) it is a HP design Jet T730. The driver is the latest HP driver, HPGL and PC3 are listed in AutCAD´s printer/ plotter section. There´s an issue with not cutting the print as soon as it´s finished too, but that´s probably driver related. OS is Win11Pro, latest drivers and patches as of today.

The presets, as saved in AutoCADs print dialoge, the page settings/ setup you can customize and save settings to. Which does not work for some reason. All I can do is set it to the last plots configuration. It´s connected via a LAN.

If you need to know more, I´ll be glad to answer

Kind regards

Daniel

[pendean]

Thanks for the additional information. Remember, AutoCAD has been around for 40-ish years and all of us are end users just like you and we all print and plot all day long with very few issues.

For testing purposes only... Stop using any PC3 files to that HPT730 for now if you do not quite understand what a PC3 file actually is. Use the Windows driver like all of your other programs on your PC do all day long with no issues at all: we have a T930 (HPGL/2 driver) on the local network so all of this works for us 100% of the time with no issues at all.

In AutoCAD/LT, we used PAGESETUPs to control output sheets sizes, orientation and so on. So regardless of printer or plotter or PDF or DWF driver output, all of us in our offices get the same exact 100% identical results.

Back to the T930 and your similar variant: in that driver, we have autorotate turned on, automatic cutter on, and...

Roll size is the only thing we swap out when we need it: this morning, there is a 24" roll loaded on this plotter. Notice how nothing else is changed

In PLOT command, you always want to click here if you make any dialog box changes that you wish to preserve

Test it out now.

[pendean]

Thanks for the additional information. Remember, AutoCAD has been around for 40-ish years and all of us are end users just like you and we all print and plot all day long with very few issues.

For testing purposes only... Stop using any PC3 files to that HPT730 for now if you do not quite understand what a PC3 file actually is. Use the Windows driver like all of your other programs on your PC do all day long with no issues at all: we have a T930 (HPGL/2 driver) on the local network so all of this works for us 100% of the time with no issues at all.

In AutoCAD/LT, we used PAGESETUPs to control output sheets sizes, orientation and so on. So regardless of printer or plotter or PDF or DWF driver output, all of us in our offices get the same exact 100% identical results.

Back to the T930 and your similar variant: in that driver, we have autorotate turned on, automatic cutter on, and...

Roll size is the only thing we swap out when we need it: this morning, there is a 24" roll loaded on this plotter. Notice how nothing else is changed

In PLOT command, you always want to click here if you make any dialog box changes that you wish to preserve

Test it out now.

[Logos_Atum]

Thanks so much for the guide. I at least heard HPGL is closer to postscript and should be the driver of choice. I will do as you indicated and let you know as soon as we tested it. I usually configure each page to fit and never use the automatic cutting feature, but this might just save time and my colleague is used to this and of course it worked on his old Windows 10 computer. It´s my task to configure the new workstations we got and I might just be able to do it the way he wants it.

Thank you very much for now and I´ll tell you how it went

[Logos_Atum]

Thanks so much for the guide. I at least heard HPGL is closer to postscript and should be the driver of choice. I will do as you indicated and let you know as soon as we tested it. I usually configure each page to fit and never use the automatic cutting feature, but this might just save time and my colleague is used to this and of course it worked on his old Windows 10 computer. It´s my task to configure the new workstations we got and I might just be able to do it the way he wants it.

Thank you very much for now and I´ll tell you how it went