AutoCAD LT 2018 and HP 1055cm HELP needed

[Anonymous]

Good evening, my husband has been using AutoCAD 2014 and windows 10 (upgraded from windows 7 pro) and has successfully been plotting to this printer.  I installed AutoCAD 2018 on his OLD computer and migrated all of his settings during setup.  He CAN NOT get LT 2018 to print to the HP 1055cm printer anymore.  It WILL print from LT 2014.  Can anyone help me get this issue resolved?  I have googled it and see that the HP 1055 are no longer supported but there were also posts that people had successfully gotten them to work but with no details.

On a side note. . .He also just got a new laptop.  Installed LT 2018 and I exported settings from old laptop and imported to new new laptop.  I manually copied his hatch patterns also.  So far all is good.

But now How to PLOT? ? ? 

[pendean]

Things changed starting with LT2015. There are many things to try, I'll get you started with these
https://latitude-it.net/hp-designjet-plotter-drivers-and-windows-8/
and
https://knowledge.autodesk.com/support/autocad/troubleshooting/caas/sfdcarticles/sfdcarticles/HP-pri...

[Anonymous]

I installed a winline driver/application and it appears to be working now. Will keep you posted if something changes. 

[Emmsleys]

Hello @Anonymous,

Welcome to the Autodesk Community!

If the issue continues post's back in the forums, I'd be happy to try and take a stab at the issue as well. 

Did any of the posts in the thread help with the issue?

Please use the Accept as Solution for those post’s that helped. It may benefit other users who might have a similar question or issue.

Thanks for your time.         

[Anonymous]

HP 1055cm wide format printer. There is not a windows 10 driver for it. We used an older desktop as a "server" for the printer driver and shared it using the \\computer-name\HP 1055 and now we can plot to it as usual.
Needless to say I've been sitting at this desk ALL DAY and I'm brain dead ....
thanks again for all of the replies today. You guys kept me going....

[Anonymous]

I'm having the same issue, running LT 2018. The venerable 1055CM is on our network, could someone tell me where I should install the WinLINE drivers?

Dave

[pendean]

They don't work together any more: PLOT to PDF, then use your PDF Viewer to print to the old classic plotter.

[Anonymous]

dammit! That's the work-around Ive been doing, thank you for the fast response

[Anonymous]

ps do you ever see issues with drawing scale accuracy when doing this?

[pendean]

... only if I'm not paying attention to these settings in my PDF viewer