Plots shifting

Hello everyone. I've read several postings but nothing seems to work. I am using AutoCAD 2005 and printing to a Ricoh 240 at my local print shop. I plot from paperspace. The problem is the bottom margin - its at the very bottom edge of my paper and will not shift no matter what I try. I've gone into the custom plot tabs within the plotters .pc3 file, changed the x, y offset under the plot window, and reset my plotoffset variable to one (1). Still the margin will not move. Any help or suggestions is greatly appreciated. Thanks is advance.

 

Do you paper margins set up on the sheet on a plotable layer. I know with
our OCE it wont see anything on either defpoints or a unplottable layer,
thus it finds the first thing it can see namely the border itself.

Tim W.

 

Forgive my ignorance, but I'm not sure I understand the question. My layers including my title block are all on custom layers. I usually place anything I don't wanted visibly plotted on defpoints. My margins are typically the default printable area that shows up when changing the driver. My plot preview shows up normal, my plots are a different story. If I didn't give you the information you needed, please rephrase and I'll do the best I can to answer your questions.

 

I can't speak directly about your plotter, but I see the same thing on
my Oce, just like Tim. To center a plot on the Oce TDS400 I add
registration marks 0.04" in from where the edge of the paper should be.
These marks go in the upper left and lower right corners. I make them
color 255, which prints at 0% screen in my pen table, and they are on a
printing layer. What this does is place a printing object just inside
the 0.03" non-printing border that the Oce is set for.

The issue with the Oce is that it doesn't see anything on the outer
0.03" because of the non-printing area. It will center whatever it sees
that's not in the non-printing area. Adding the registration marks
makes sure that the plotter sees a plot that's, say, 23.92" X 35.92"
instead of whatever dimensions the title block is.

This may not be your problem, but it might get you headed in the right
direction.

Martin

 

Try either the registration marks that Martin spoke of or try putting a box
at the plottable dimensions (i.e. 24x36, 30x42 etc) around your border on a
layer that is to plot. Then center the border inside the box as necessary
and give it a go.

Tim W.