topic Re: Printing pdf's to an HP430 in Installation & update

Printing pdf's to an HP430

Rick Thompson — Thu, 29 Jul 2004 14:14:14 GMT

I am sending pdf sets to a client who is trying to print to an HP430. He is frustrated as title blocks and many drawings are clipped and he can't fix it. It seems to me his margins are the problem, but he doesn't know what to do. I send pdf's to many print companies and they seem to print them fine.... and they display properly in Acrobat. Anyone know what I can tell him to fix it. He wants me to re-format all the sheets, and on many plans... argggg. My drawings are up to 1/2" to the edge of 18"x24" paper.

thanks

Re: Printing pdf's to an HP430

Jefferson — Thu, 29 Jul 2004 15:08:27 GMT

Hi Rick,

Just a guess here but, ask your guy to either send a screen shot of the print layout dialog box [the margin setup] and or walk him through it over the phone. Dollars to doughnuts he has his setup wrong and some correction at that end will be the cure, especially since you have had success with sending your PDFs elsewhere.

Re: Printing pdf's to an HP430

Erika Epstein — Fri, 30 Jul 2004 15:59:24 GMT

Is the result tiling and he is just print sheet 1 of?
or is it really just cutting of a portion of each sheet?

It sounds like they might have the printer set to add its default margins to your preset ones.

Re: Printing pdf's to an HP430

Djordje — Fri, 30 Jul 2004 18:04:07 GMT

Rick,

If you have a full Acrobat, try cropping all your sheets to borders; "remove white margins" if I recollect correctly.

Seems to me that your client has his margins set unusually high; maybe you make the PDFs for the roll print, where margins are smaller than the single sheet print; and so on ...