HP Designjet 700 Wacky Plots

Novell 6.0 Small Business Suite
Land Desktop 2004 Network Version
Windows XP
HP Designjet 700 Driver version 4.65

The Problem: All of a sudden we're experiencing plots that randomly leave text and linework off. Every plots seams to produce different results including only plotting 1/3 of the drawing randomly in all areas. Our 750C which uses the same driver works great. Any ideas would be greatly appreciated!!!

Randy

 

It could be a plotter memory problem, had similar thing happen with a HP600.
I think you can run a test on the plotter which will test the memory. Also,
have you tried running the plotters test page, if so how does it plot?

text and linework off. Every plots seams to produce different results
including only plotting 1/3 of the drawing randomly in all areas. Our 750C
which uses the same driver works great. Any ideas would be greatly
appreciated!!!

 

Hi Randy,

As pointed out by Tom it could be memory. I have also seen this with
communications problems. Check all your cabling and make sure it's in good
condition and working. You may even want to move the DesignJet to a local
Parallel port and test that way to see if the problem goes away. If it does
then the problem could be cabling or the network setup.

You may also be able to find out more on the HP WEB Site...

http://www.hp.com/go/designjet

Hope this helps.

Bud Schroeder
AutoCAD Test Development
Autodesk Inc.

text and linework off. Every plots seams to produce different results
including only plotting 1/3 of the drawing randomly in all areas. Our 750C
which uses the same driver works great. Any ideas would be greatly
appreciated!!!

 

HI Randy

Are you in Joliet?

Seeing the "from" name and yours just peaked my curiosity.

Rob

text and linework off. Every plots seams to produce different results
including only plotting 1/3 of the drawing randomly in all areas. Our 750C
which uses the same driver works great. Any ideas would be greatly
appreciated!!!

 

Correct! This must be R.A.R.?

The solution ended being (from our network guy) recreate NDPS printer agent. Changed IP address. Increased Time out to 60 from 30. Config. agent to generic PCL(PJL). This was all going to be my next suggestion! Printing directly from CPU to printer worked so it narrowed it down to network communication.

Randy

 

Yep.

Glad to see the old 700 was made to work.
If you did'nt suggest it, I was going to all allong.


K.I.T.
Rob

agent. Changed IP address. Increased Time out to 60 from 30. Config. agent
to generic PCL(PJL). This was all going to be my next suggestion!
Printing directly from CPU to printer worked so it narrowed it down to
network communication.