Pasting JPG into a drawing

I pasted a couple of JPG and BMP images into one of my drawing and I'm
trying to plot them (Calcomp 52224) and only the lines I drew with Acad 2004
are there. The images are not printing no matter what I do.

I there a trick I should know ?

Tia

 

Make sure that the layer where the images are placed is able to be printed,
and then put the layer in a colour that is not in greyscale (plotstyle).

Daletmem

 

You pasted them in? Try using the "image" command (replaces the old jpgin,
gifin and tif in commands) to place the images in the drawing. As dale
noted, insert them on a printable layer, etc.

Marc

 

Isn't that plotter a pen plotter? If so it doesn't support plotting
raster images at all. I don't know of any way of plotting them on
pen plotters short of tracing over the image in Autocad.

-Tim

 

No it's an electrostatic plotter (1988) and I found out it's a vector
plotter only.

 

Have a copy of CorelDraw? Use CorelTrace to vectorize your raster image,
export it as a DXF file, import into AutoCAD and voila! It's as easy as
1-2-3-4-5-6-7-8-9-10-11-12-13-14-15, just like everything else in AutoCAD.

Marc

 

I've seen some inkjet printers that have vector only drivers as well.
In our case however, with the HP DesignJet 500 the Autocad drivers
didn't support raster, but the windows drivers did. So we could get
around it by using the windows system printer. (This was back when
Autocad had it's own drivers for every printer)

If the image is of a line drawing then one option may be to trace over
it in Autocad or use a program such as Scan2CAD to convert it
automatically.

-Tim