White streaks when printing shaded models

[Anonymous]

Hi

When i print directly from .idw files in inventor i get white streaks across my shaded models.

[Cadmanto]

Welcome to the forum.

Are you printing to your local printer?  PDF? or what?

Have you checked the settings for the printer?

Do you have the latest drivers for said printer?

Windows 10 x64 -16GB Ram
Intel i7-6700 @ 3.41ghz
nVidia GTS 250 - 1 GB
Inventor Pro 2018

[Anonymous]

Thank you

The printer im using, is a Xerox 780V_T.

I have not converted the file to pdf. Im printing directly from Inventor. 

I have checked the printer settings, it is set to high quality.

[Cadmanto]

Are you printing drawings or models?

Maybe print to PDF then print the PDF  to the printer.

Windows 10 x64 -16GB Ram
Intel i7-6700 @ 3.41ghz
nVidia GTS 250 - 1 GB
Inventor Pro 2018

[johnsonshiue]

Hi! I suspect you are printing Inventor dwg file from Inventor, right? Has the dwg file been edited in AutoCAD? Are there any hidden objects not shown in Inventor drawing environment?

Many thanks!

[Thalmet · Accepted solution]

This sounds like a driver issue with the printer.  Adobe PDF also has an issue when printing from Inventor.  Try printing to a different printer and see if that fixes the problem.

[Anonymous]

I have tried 3 different printers now. its the same with every one of them. 

I'll just explain what i do from the beginning. 

I press create new file. and choose ISO.idw, i then create my three views. Lastly i make an isometric view, which i make shaded. I then go to print setup, sets it to high quality and colour. then i print. I have attatched an example of how it looks. 

If i first convert to pdf, and then print that in high quality, the streaks are gone. But i still think i should be able to print directly from Inventor.

[lando7189]

Good tip... just saw this happen as well a couple of weeks ago and this got around the problem (switching to Bluebeam's PDF printer fixed it).  Thanks.

Lanny

TMI Systems

Dickinson ND

[Anonymous]

It works, when i first convert to pdf, then print. I just dont feel like that is a solution. I should be able to print directly from Inventor. If i have 50 part drawings, it takes quite a while to convert them all.