Ellipses are mirrored in plots

Hello all,

We are having a problem plotting to our OCE TDS600. When we plot a drawing
file that contains ellipses, all of the ellipses are mirrored on the plot.
I think the best way to describe this is to think back when you where a kid.
Do you remember painting on one half of a piece of paper and then folding it
in half? Well, that is what is happening with the ellipses. The ellipses
are plotting where they need to be but there is a ghosted (for lack of a
better word) ellipse on the other half of the page. One other weird thing,
this happens in LDT as well as MAP but in MAP, the mirrored ellipses are
much fainter than LDT.

If anyone can shed some light on this, it would be greatly appreciated.

Thanks,

Brian

LDT2004, XP-Pro

 

Hi Dean,

Yup, they are ellipses. The actual ellipses are plotting but there is a
duplicate ellipse on the other side of the page as if the ink on the ellipse
is still wet and the page is folded in half and then unfolded.

Brian

 

Thanks Dean,

But I want them to plot. The ellipses are being duplicated as mirrored
ellipses on the other side of the page.

A little more information:

When plotting via a .pc3 file, we get the mirrored entities but when
plotting to the system plotter, they don't appear. Also, we just had this
happen to some text in a different drawing on a different computer.

Brian

 

What drivers are you using? Are they windows or AutoCAD?

We have the TDS600. The original drivers were a nightmare. We didn't have
the problem you describe, but getting the thing to cut the right papersize
was impossible, Halftoning (shaded objects) wouldn't plot right and it would
lock up constantly and I'd have to reboot it's controller. I was about to
toss it out the window then Oce released a new set of windows drivers (about
two years ago) that fixed everything in one fell swoop. It is a great
printer now.
bg