1050c and paper size

I am currently using hp1050c and i have noticed that whenever i plot my dwgs
out to a roll of paper, it cuts the paper 1" short than the actual paper
size in my print dialog. for example, if i want a 24" x 36" and put a 24"
roll of paper in my printer, it will print out and cut it at 35". this is
really bugging. i made sure that my printer was set to software not ink
area but i have no other clue.. any suggestions?

 

Is your software settings for the printer set to inked area as well? More
than likely, this is the source of your problem.

Tools-->Options-->Plottering tab-->Add or Configure Plotters-->Device and
Document Settings tab (after opening correct plotter)-->Custom
Properties-->Advanced. In there, there should be a check box for Inked
Area. Uncheck it.

 

I'm stuch at custom properties-->Advanced. when i go to custom property,
there is no button for advanced. the only buttons available is custom
properties. and when i click that the only check boxes are override quality
defaults on devicem do not warn at plot time and rater gamma correction.
i'm using 2005. is that why i don't see the option?

 

It should be a tab at the top...

 

still can't find the advance button.....

 

oic. i found it under the printer prefernces (in the actual printer..
start-->printer-->properties.) i was looking at the pc3 file. well, it was
already unchecked so i don't think it's that. thanks for your help anyways.

 

Maybe you have set up the scaling?
Try looking into the properties under paper size, there is an option for
scaling, options are:
No scaling,
Fit to this page,
Use this scaling factor.
We have set it up for No Scaling, works fine for us.

Jan

 

Cindee, as a longtime HP1050 user, I can help you with a little experience. We had this issue when we switched to A2K from r14 about 5 years ago.

Exact measurements revealed plots were 0.7" short of industry standard. We solved this by creating a pc3 file and then a pmp file to adjust the paper size. We just added .7" to the x direction and our plots come out exactly the right length. We were forced by this to also create a "plot to file" pc3 which had exactly 24"x36" paper size (and all the other sizes exactly too) so that anyone else could plot our plot files on their equipment and get the right page length.

The only problems we've encountered is that the plotter often displays a message about the paper being too small, but plots are perfect. Also, it tends to play some havoc with sheet layouts being a funny length for our client's borders, but we set them with the "window option and adjust the margin with a little bump in the negative x direction to get the desired result. I recently had some issues arise from this when attempting to publish to dwf files but I solved it with a little more bump in the negative x direction. HTH

 

experience. We had this issue when we switched to A2K from r14 about 5
years ago.

standard. We solved this by creating a pc3 file and then a pmp file to
adjust the paper size. We just added .7" to the x direction and our
plots come out exactly the right length. We were forced by this to
also create a "plot to file" pc3 which had exactly 24"x36" paper size
(and all the other sizes exactly too) so that anyone else could plot
our plot files on their equipment and get the right page length.

displays a message about the paper being too small, but plots are
perfect. Also, it tends to play some havoc with sheet layouts being a
funny length for our client's borders, but we set them with the "window
option and adjust the margin with a little bump in the negative x
direction to get the desired result. I recently had some issues arise
from this when attempting to publish to dwf files but I solved it with
a little more bump in the negative x direction. HTH

 

nope. it's' not that.

 

My message got lost....... Anyways what I suggested was that you
calibrate your plotter if you haven't done so already. If you just go
into the .pc3 files setting and click calibrate plotter, make sure you
read the instruction or else it will go way off. It will first ask you
to select a size I.E. Arch D 24x36 then it will ask how much you want
print, make sure you go lower than 24x36, you can't do decimals so go
to 23x35. Then it will plot out a rectangle that SHOULD be 23x35, if it
isn't put in on the next window your exact measurements, the more
acurate you are, the more acurate your plots (I mean I was doing like
22.995x35.002 so get as close as you possably can. This is the
important part knowing that your document comes out like it should,
then you can mess with leading and trailing stuff, I am not as familiar
with 1050c as I am with the Ocd TDS 400 (we have both), but on the oce
there is a setting in custom properties for cut size, I would imagine
there would be something like that on the HP either in the .pc3 or on
the machine. Reply back whether this works for you or not.