topic plotmaker 3.1 printing problem in Installation & update

plotmaker 3.1 printing problem

Anonymous — Wed, 03 Dec 2003 13:54:12 GMT

hi. i have problems with printing from pm 3.1. when sending book to plotter. it prints drawings and empty pages after them.
i doesn't do this if drawings are send separately. wats more if i
set no of copies to two i've got 4 copies, if 4 is set it prints 16.
can anyone help?
thanks

win xp
pentium II 2ghz
radeon 9600/128 mb
archicad 8.1/pm 3.1
ram 1 gb
designjet 450c

Re: plotmaker 3.1 printing problem

Djordje — Wed, 03 Dec 2003 15:55:38 GMT

tho wrote:
hi. i have problems with printing from pm 3.1. when sending book to plotter. it prints drawings and empty pages after them.

Roll or cut sheet?

How is your Master set up?

Can you post a screen shot of your Print Options?

Re: plotmaker 3.1 printing problem

Anonymous — Thu, 04 Dec 2003 09:48:19 GMT

Roll.
the werid thing is when i publish them seperately it doesnt do this.

Re: plotmaker 3.1 printing problem

Djordje — Thu, 04 Dec 2003 12:09:37 GMT

tho wrote:
Roll.
the werid thing is when i publish them seperately it doesnt do this.

The bottom image tells you everything; the blue frame is your sheet.

Click on Use margins of device, or, better, adjust your Master for the device margins.

BTW, you don't have to Publish to printer, except if different subsets/layouts have different print settings. Just Print.

Re: plotmaker 3.1 printing problem

Anonymous — Mon, 08 Dec 2003 13:55:22 GMT

the problem is that i'm printing from three different printers and with 6 different settings. with 50 dawings let say in 8 sets of for palnning aprooval its really irritateing and time consuming without publisher.

Re: plotmaker 3.1 printing problem

Djordje — Mon, 08 Dec 2003 15:45:32 GMT

tho wrote:
the problem is that i'm printing from three different printers and with 6 different settings. with 50 dawings let say in 8 sets of for palnning aprooval its really irritateing and time consuming without publisher.

Yep, then you do have to use Publisher.

Just make SURE that all the print setups are set to the margins of device - with a thought on Ben's (?) tip that, if your device can print with zero margin, that should be switched off, as we usually want at least a 5mm margin ...