Xerox Docucolor 2240 Color Laser Printer

Using ACAD 2002. I am able to print directly to the Xerox 2240, which is shared off of a server, and get perfect results.
What I am trying to do is plot the drawing to a plot file, so I can us the DOS Command to batch copy the plot files directly to the printer, like you can do with an HP Inkjet Plotter.
Here is my issue... when I copy the plot files to the printer, they come out blank. I can also use a viewing application to view the plot files and they show up blank also, not like viewing a plot file that was created with an HP Plotter driver.

Got any ideas???

Tom

 

What driver do you use to plot to file? It should be the driver for the
X 2240, but from what you write it is not clear whether you are using
that driver indeed. More questions: what does the command look like that
you use to copy the files to the printer and what viewing application do
you use.

Govert

 

Govert,
What driver do you use to plot to file?
-XEROX DocuColor 2240 PLC 6
(the references that I made about the HP drivers was to show that I am able to do the copy procedure to an HP DesignJet 650C plotter that we have here. Probably because it is in HPGL format as opposed to PCL format that the Xerox is in.)

What does the command look like that you use to copy the files to the printer?
- <drive:\ directory info\etc...> Copy *.plt \\mtvprinter\xmtv4166
(the same thing happens when I copy an individual plot file also, as opposed to doing the *.plt)

What viewing application do you use?
- Spicer's Imagenation, Version 7.4

Tom

 

Whoops.....

Should have been "PLC" instead of
"...opposed to PCL format..."

 

Looks good. I believe PCL6 should be treated as binary. So use the /B
switch with the COPY command:

COPY /B *.PLT \\MTVPRINTER\XMTV4166

Alternatively you could use my GoPlot: http://members.lycos.nl/goplot

Govert