Printing issues

[Anonymous]

Hello

I am encountering a very unsual problem. When I try to print some drawings (pdf with Adobe PDF writer or with the plotter), the drawings dissapears, and just the text that is on the drawings appears (Room name,notes, etc). Also the title box appears just fine. I tryed to delete the drawing from the sheet and insert it again. Sometimes it solves the problem, sometimes it doesn't, lately it doesn't. I am so lost with this issue, maybe there is somebody that can make some light for me and help solve this. Can it be a problem with the graphic card?

Thank you in advance. 

[ennujozlagam]

hi, it could be your graphic card updates latest driver.

or go to the big R (top left of your screen) > options > graphics > untick use hardware acceleration. hope it helps. thanks

[sureshchotrani]

Kindly help provide the snap shot of the print setup. kindly check the below highlighted in red box

[Anonymous]

Hi. 

Thank you so much for your solutions. I did untick hardware acceleration yesterday and I wanted to see what happens. Unfortunately it still does it. The unusual thing is that there is no pattern for it, which sheets and why is not printed right. (basically there are duplicated sheets with a few changes)

I attached a photo of my printing options also but are exactly the same as in the photo sureshchotrani attached. I am getting very frustrated that I don't when a drawing will be printed right or not.

Thank you again for you input. 

[L.Maas · Accepted solution]

Printing, in general, seems to cause always a lot of headaches. Basically it is a cooperation between the software, OS, printerdriver and hardware. Lots of room to get into problems. This means that the problem does not have to be in Revit itself. This means you have to do some troubleshooting

It seems you try to print to a PDF printer on a network?

-In the Revit print settings change from vector to raster printer and see if that resolves things.

-Try to print to the local computer (not to something on network)

-Try a diffferent (PDF) Printer.

-Printing from other software on computer without problems?

-Try from a different computer in the office.

-Check for updates (printerdriver, OS, Revit).

[ennujozlagam]

hi, instead of using your existing PDF driver change to different one and install new PDF driver (free from website) for printing. and see how it goes.

let say from this site

http://www.bullzip.com/products/pdf/info.php

http://www.pdf995.com/

[David_W_Koch]

Do the sheets that are having problems have non-rectangular view crops?  Specifically, non-rectangular view crops with "angled" boundary lines (in other words, the view boundary lines are not all perpendicular to adjacent boundary lines)?  This is known to vastly increase the size of the generated PDF, sometimes to the point of crashing the machine, if the available memory is insufficient.  Perhaps the effects you are seeing are related to insufficient memory while generating the PDF, which could be caused by non-orthogonal view crops.

[Anonymous]

Hello

So I can say that I tried all your advices in the attempt to find the trigger which was causing the problem. Today I was still having a lot of troubles with printing but I believe I found what is causing it. When I change from vector to raster that seemed to help.
Before I had to move the drawing on the sheet and finally the only thing that was helping was if some part of the drawing was outside the sheet :))), if that makes any sense.
About the PDF printers i have installed 3 and all of them do the same thing, so that is definitely not the cause. I updated the drivers and system before I wrote in here, I also though that might be the problem.
The view crop is normal, rectangular. The building is multi story and for example when I was printing it was working only 2 levels(planview) out of 4. And it was changing. Sometimes basement, sometimes 4th floor, etc. So the crop view was the same for all of them and it should have happened in all cases then.
I would still like to know what is the problem for not being able to print as vector?

Thank you so much!

[Anonymous]

Hello So I can say that I tried all your advices in the attempt to find the trigger which was causing the problem. Today I was still having a lot of troubles with printing but I believe I found what is causing it. When I change from vector to raster that seemed to help. Before I had to move the drawing on the sheet and finally the only thing that was helping was if some part of the drawing was outside the sheet Smiley Happy)), if that makes any sense. About the PDF printers i have installed 3 and all of them do the same thing, so that is definitely not the cause. I updated the drivers and system before I wrote in here, I also though that might be the problem. The view crop is normal, rectangular. The building is multi story and for example when I was printing it was working only 2 levels(planview) out of 4. And it was changing. Sometimes basement, sometimes 4th floor, etc. So the crop view was the same for all of them and it should have happened in all cases then. I would still like to know what is the problem for not being able to print as vector? Thank you so much!

[L.Maas]

Difficult to find out what the problem is. With raster you are basically sending pixels to the printer (like a foto). With vector you are sending mathematical curves (lines, curves, dots etc) to the printer. It is basically telling the printer what objects to print. Probably there are some objects in the project which does not translate well for some reason (bug in Revit print code?).

Maybe you can find the cause by removing objects and trying to print again. It is possible that at a certain time it will print well and you can detemine the culprit(s).

[Anonymous]

HI! Iam having the same exactly problem with the same variants. Only one drawings, randomly. I tried everything. I got printed rastering but the quality is not the same one. Someone resolved this? Thank you so much!