Lines Printing outside of my viewport

Hi Folks,

I set up my layout with a view port to the model.
I Haven't drawn anything on the layout.
But for some reason, when I plot to my printer (HP LJ 2550L or HP LJ 2300DN), the lines (and sometimes objects) print outside of the viewport perimeter. The thicker the linetype, the worse it 'bleeds' through the veiwport perimeter.

Would it be a resolution problem? An AutoCAD setting problem? A Printer problem? Linetype problem? I've got no ideas left! Help!

Cheers,

Rob

 

If anyone has a similar problem, here is a work around I used:

Change your TrueType Text settings to print as images.
Publish the 'paperspace' or 'layout' to a DWF file.
Print the page from the DWF viewer.

That stopped the lines from 'bleeding' through the view port and stopped text from printing outside the veiwport perimeter.

Cheers!

 

I'm pretty sure this is an AutoCAD bug and I think there was a tech article
on it that suggested using an older driver to compensate for it.

Personally I think all revolves around the fact that AutoCAD does not
properly recognize margins for Windows printers if the printer has an
unprintable area that is less than 1/8". If you pick say a PDF driver in
AutoCAD to plot to the printable area for an 8.5x11.0 will be something like
8.25x10.75 even though the margins for the driver are set at 0.0. Explain
that calculation. It's a load of crap is what it is and for some reason
they have refused to fix this since AutoCAD 2000. Even my little brain can
write the 10 lines of code that return the actual margins for the printer
correctly. And they are already doing it because if the driver has a margin
over 1/8" then it display it correctly. But for whatever reason they have a
line of code is there that say if the margin is less than 1/8" then it is
1/8".

So what this does is that AutoCAD ends up sending the wrong clipping planes
to the printer. Again, another bug. Graphics are sent correctly but not
clipping planes? So on 1 side typically the text and lines will stick out
and the other they will end up being short of the viewport borders. At
least that's what we've seen.

So the reason the older driver is suggested is probably because it has a
larger minimum margin for the page because older printers/plotters could not
print all the way to the edge.

Now sometimes if you use a pc3 file it also clears it up because you can
specify the margins for each page size. But not always. And it usually
happens to True Type Text because if the text is sent as text an entire
letter has to be sent and then a clipping plane is sent to the printer for
the portion that does not actually get printed.

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text from printing outside the veiwport perimeter.

 

Wow, okay, that explains a lot! I appreciate the info. Thank you!