Plotting problem
@Anonymous ,
Consider using Full Bleed in your plot options.
This common issue can be easily resolved. It's a printer issue, more specifically it's a 'printable area' issue. That dotted line you see running along the edges of your page in layout view is demarcating your printer's printable area. Each printer varies in maximum printable area because it depends on how the individual printer grips and pushes a sheet as well as how far the pen can go before it reaches the edge. There will always be a margin of white space and that margin is referenced by the dotted line.
<<Only professional printers can print to the edge of a sheet. They accomplish this by using a taller and wider sheet than necessary and printing beyond the 'finished' dimensions then physically trimming both the white margin AND some of the printed area (e.g. 1" white margin + 1/2" of the actual printed material). For example, an over sized sheet is mounted onto a foam board then both board and the mounted sheet are trimmed simultaneously down to the actual finished dimensions. This results with the printed material having a clean and professional appearance b/c the ink runs all the way to the edge. This process of printing to the edge is called 'full bleeding.' Why AutoCAD mentions or provides the full bleed option when plotting is beyond me. Maybe Acad has a different definition of full bleed compared to full bleed used in the printing industry.>>
The easiest way to prevent Cad from chopping off parts that should be printed is to move the dotted line, printable area, all the way to the edge of the sheet.
1) From plot dialog, next to printer name, click Properties. Then Device and Doc settings tab, in top box, select Modify Standard Paper Sizes (Printable Area).
2) Right below, In Mod Standard Paper Sizes, find your sheet size and click Modify button. (Note: Cad didn't make finding your sheet size easy.) The list is not alphabetical and the view window showing the sheet list is very small. Based on your printer, each sheet is shown, you just have to find it.
3) Next, in Custom Paper Size-Printable Area, reduce all four margins by entering "0" in the top, bottom, left and right boxes. When you do this, the preview will update and show the dotted line moving to the edge of sheet. Click Next. Click Finish. You can overwrite your pc3 file so you won't have to do this again and again whenever you use the exact named sheet.
Warning: this procedure is applicable on a sheet-by-sheet basis so perform it on all the 'sheet sizes' that are subjected to printing cut-offs. Over write the same pc3 file so your all of your 'custom' margins on all your sheet sizes are contained in the same pc3. Once you've maxed all of your sheet sizes, you're good to go b/c the pc3 file stores your customized margins.
Your printer's printable area for that specific sheet size, is now maxed out. You will never be able to print up to, and onto, the absolute edge but it will print as close as possible given the limitations by the printer's manufacturer.
Chicagolooper
Thank you both for your replies.
I am plotting on rolls of paper, so what I do is set in the custom properties of the printer the width of the roll (in this case 609mm),then set the length according to the drawing and finally select the "Oversize" version of the dimension, witch minimizes the margins.
Up until now, everything was being printed just fine with minimal margins all around (I know I cannot expect a commercial plotter to print right to the very edge of the paper). What seems to be the problem now is that it completely disregards the "oversize" option and just prints with the normal margins, witch crops my print.
I tried modifying the custom paper sizes, but nothing changed.