Revit - Plotting PDF set to Bluebeam - Blank Pages

[Anonymous]

I'm having an issue when plotting a PDF set with Revit.

If I plot a set of PDFs to the Bluebeam PDF Printer I have setup, some PDFs in the set will come out entirely blank and some PDFs in the set will come out partially blank. But many PDFs will come out perfectly fine. 

I then have to re-re-plot the sheets individually to make sure they are coming out correctly. When I plot individually the PDFs plot correctly. 

Because the PDFs come out good when plotted one by one, I'm led to believe that this is some sort of overload with the system I have setup. Does anyone have an idea of what settings I could adjust to try to get around this issue?

Plotting PDFs individually, when there are hundreds of sheets, is frustrating and time consuming.

Thanks!

[Anonymous]

Hi Thomas.

Several printers have limited on-board memory to process print data.

When printing large format sheet sizes to plotters such as the HP DesignJet, change the plotter's settings so that the data is processed in the computer.

To change the settings, click (Print). Select the correct printer, and click Properties. In the dialog, click the Advanced tab. Select the option to process the document in the computer, and click OK.

Source: https://knowledge.autodesk.com/support/revit-products/learn-explore/caas/CloudHelp/cloudhelp/2017/EN...

On the other hand, the one that you are doing quite good although you are doing it one by one, because doing this the quality of drawings will be checked. My previous company is doing this also, checking it one by one for quality purpose, instead of printing by batch.

Thanks.

[Anonymous]

Printing dozens or hundreds of sheets individually is a terrible way to 'check quality,' and is a typical Autodesk punk to distract everyone from this terrible dinosaur of a program. 

Also, it seems to me you didn't even read the problem. If has nothing to do with printing to a plotter. It's printing to PDF, using Bluebeam. 

Please just fix the software so I am not reading 7 year old posts on what to do when a sheet prints blank. 

In my case I have 3 sheets, two print to pdf ok, the third has 3d views on it and prints a blank sheet. I have Intel I7, 48 GB ram... so it's not my computer. 

[pendean]

>>>...Please just fix the software...<<<
No one responding to this post is from Autodesk, neither are most folks responding to posts in these forums: the majority are end users just like you offering what they know works or as a workaround.

If you want to suggest fixes, you yourself need to do so here https://forums.autodesk.com/t5/revit-ideas/idb-p/302

HTH

[Jim_Melin]

I found this question when encountering the same error with Revit 2021 for an entire department.

This time Bluebeam reports it as effects of a Windows update.
https://support.bluebeam.com/articles/content-issues-when-printing-from-revit/

It might be helpful, so I just leave it here.