Getting Oce 9400-II to work

I have seen a few posts to this group addressing problems
with an Oce 9400-II plotter, which is the only large format
output device available at my employer. I am trying to print
C-size schematics from Altium DXP (SP2) running on a
WinXP-Pro workstation on a Microsoft network.

All users except me send vector formats to the plotter, mine
must be rasterized for some reason. After I send it a
drawing and plotting has finished, the 9400-II's LCD
continues to display "ANALYZING DATA" for about 2 minutes.
If anyone (including myself) sends it a file during this
interval or for an indeterminate time thereafter, the plotter
enters one of 2 non-functional modes (names my own
creation), from which only a power cycle will restore it:
- Deep catatonic mode: Plotter does not respond to any
commands on its data port at all,
- "Eyes-open" catatonic mode: Plotter accepts the entire
data stream, goes through the rasterization and
"processing" steps of a normal plot, and then goes out
to lunch, without producing a hardcopy.

The latter mode is the most vexing, as it may take 5-10
minutes to discover I am not going to get my schematic.

I am now power-cycling it every time, as my project falls
behind schedule.

Has anyone discovered any sort of workaround (short of
buying a new plotter--not within my signature authority). Is
there a way to query the peripheral via the device driver
and detect its non-functionality from my desk? This would
save me considerable steps over what I am doing now.

Thanks.
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Hi

Spend an hour with the setup chapter in this ,

http://files.oce.com/nl/download/9400ii_um_gb.pdf

Natural causes are proberly that the vector data is not reconised
before the right mode are selected, this link shuld provide a step by
step , then you proberly could save the sceme.

P.C.