Re: Plotting Problems in screening pens

Ron and Craig, we also use an old DesignJet 600 and have no problems
plotting. I downloaded the latest windows driver from HP's website and setup
our 2000i stations for plotting on XP. The trick with this "crap" driver as
you put it, is to go into the Printing Preferences setting when you
right-click Properties for the driver. Only here can you really deal with
the driver. Of course I assume you know HP Config and all ADI printer
drivers are obsolete post-R14, so if you're using color-dependent plot
styles (.ctb files) you must set screening in the plot style table editor.
Frankly, this is far superior to the R14 method, where you had to use HP
Config. You may also want to make sure that the pens you set for screening
are color 7 (not necessarly pen 7), so your screening percentage always
refers to full black. I'm still getting used to plotting in 2000i, but in
certain ways it's far better than 14. Ron, your DJ 600 still has some life
left it in, even under XP!! Of course if you're talking about the quality of
screening (or lack thereof), that's another story...... ;-)


"Ron McNeil" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
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> In alt.cad.autocad , Craig wrote :
> > We are using AutoCAD 2002 and our plotter is about 8 months old. It's
> > a DesignJet 500 using the HP DesignJet 500 42+HPGL2 Card driver. We
> > were using a computer to spool our drawings to the plotter but swapped
> > to an HP Jetdirect Print Server 600N.
>
> And I thought I was having all these symptoms due to me using a older
> Designjet600 of which XP/HP drivers seem to be crap, we lost screen and
> paper size features so we maintain an ME machine just for writing the plot
> files !  sorry I have no solution.
> Ron