Design Jet 500 problems (VBA printing, ISO sizes)

[Anonymous]

I have been playing with a VBA code to ease the printing experince in Inventor.

(from this: http://forums.autodesk.com/t5/inventor-general-discussion/printing-a-drawing-in-the-right-size-by-de...

But when I try to send a print to my plotter, a HP Design Jet 500 HPGL2 Card, nothing happens. The document is showing from the windows printing queue but nothing comes out :-(. It dosen't even register at the plotter.

When I take the long way through the Inventor/windows printing dialog box it works, but that's kinda what I'm trying to avoid.

I think is must be a HP Design Jet Issue, but not sure, any hints??

Also it gives error when using "kPaperSizeA2", but that can be solved by using "kPaperSizeCustom".

[Mark_Wigan]

there will be good resources if you post in the customisation area of the forum JJ.

have you tried sending to an alternative printer... even a pdf writer will tell you likely if your routine works or not. (test it on a small batch though of course).

cheers.

ps if you do repost this in the other forum please justy make a link to it from here, and also maybe attach the code you have put together for us to look at.

[Anonymous]

I will try my luck there then 🙂

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