topic Re: printing to a KIP 3000 in Installation & update

printing to a KIP 3000

Anonymous — Wed, 28 Mar 2007 01:07:38 GMT

Whenever I print to a KIP 3000, crosshatching does not print correctly (i.e. a tile floor in a round room prints out segmented instead of complete coverage.) This could be a deal killer to my company...Please help!

Re: printing to a KIP 3000

TomWaltz — Wed, 28 Mar 2007 13:02:08 GMT

We've got one. Try plotting instead of printing.

Re: printing to a KIP 3000

Anonymous — Wed, 28 Mar 2007 14:24:57 GMT

Thanks Tom for such a quick response. Forgive me but I'm not real experienced with ArchiCAD. Are you saying plot to file then print as a PDF or something?

Lee Hendrix
DocuTEAM Wide Format Specialist

Re: printing to a KIP 3000

TomWaltz — Wed, 28 Mar 2007 15:15:57 GMT

Archicad has a command for "Print" and a command for "Plot." I've found that using the Plot command to send straight to the Kip 3000 gives better looking drawings than the Print command does.

The process is no different, you just use a different command.

Re: printing to a KIP 3000

Anonymous — Wed, 28 Mar 2007 16:46:28 GMT

Thanks Tom, I'll give it a shot!

Lee

Re: printing to a KIP 3000

Anonymous — Wed, 04 Apr 2007 19:34:06 GMT

Do you have a KIP *.GPD? KIP is not listed in the available plotters list.

Re: printing to a KIP 3000

TomWaltz — Wed, 04 Apr 2007 19:46:26 GMT

We just use the HP DesignJet 800 driver. It works perfectly.

Re: printing to a KIP 3000

Anonymous — Wed, 04 Apr 2007 19:55:09 GMT

Thanks again Tom!

Re: printing to a KIP 3000

Anonymous — Thu, 05 Apr 2007 18:56:58 GMT

I've selected the HP 800 as my plotter and put in the IP address. The plot job seems to go somewhere but no output from the KIP. What am I missing?

Re: printing to a KIP 3000

TomWaltz — Thu, 05 Apr 2007 20:00:04 GMT

lhendrix wrote:
I've selected the HP 800 as my plotter and put in the IP address. The plot job seems to go somewhere but no output from the KIP. What am I missing?

I hate to say it, but that's no where near enough information. It depends on the how the plotter is configured internally and how it is referenced on the network. It could probably be dozens of things.

Re: printing to a KIP 3000

Anonymous — Thu, 05 Apr 2007 21:51:26 GMT

Sorry I couldn't give you more to go on but at least I know, thanks to you, that under the right circumstances it is possible to make this work. Hopefully I'll figure out the magic words! One last thing; Whenever you set the KIP up as a plotter, what port number did you use?
Thanks Tom for all your help. You could teach KIP tech support a thing or two.

Lee

Re: printing to a KIP 3000

TomWaltz — Fri, 06 Apr 2007 00:08:57 GMT

lhendrix wrote:
Sorry I couldn't give you more to go on but at least I know, thanks to you, that under the right circumstances it is possible to make this work. Hopefully I'll figure out the magic words! One last thing; Whenever you set the KIP up as a plotter, what port number did you use?
Thanks Tom for all your help. You could teach KIP tech support a thing or two.

Lee

On our network, it's port 9102