Raster Images

Has anyone had a problem when printing to a small printer (eg. HP DeskJet 952C) with an AutoCad dwg with a raster image underneath a bunch of AutoCad lines?

What happens here is when the print comes out all the Autocad vector lines are fine but periodically, down the page, I get a few horizontal white lines where the raster image did not print.

On the other hand if I inster the JPG directly into the dwg (as in just copy and paste) the image prints fine, however I find it difficult to line up the image with the Autocad lines when I do it that way.

Got a meeting tomorow morning and would like to know how to fix this within the next hour or two if thats possible.

Thanks in advanced.

 

This is most likely a memory issue. I have had problems similar to this and I was able to convert the large image files to Mr Sid files and they print much better. Try setting the switch in the printer driver (if yours has one) to use the computers memory instead of the printers memory. This will be slower but more effective.

 

You can convert images to AutoCAD entities first, then paste it in your drawing. More at http://www.cadeast.com