Rotate drawing to portrait for printing? Help!!!!!

Re: Rotate drawing to portrait for printing? Help!!!!!

montyrobison — Wed, 11 Nov 2009 20:20:17 GMT

Danny,

Thanks for your reply. Caddcop came up with the solution. It had to do with giving the correct roll size under Printing Preferences.

Monty

Re: Rotate drawing to portrait for printing? Help!!!!!

montyrobison — Wed, 11 Nov 2009 20:17:07 GMT

Caddcop,

Thanks for your reply. You nailed it right on the head! The roll width did the trick. It would still be nice if the preview would rotate and show you exactly what the print output will look loke, but that's probably asking too much. I'm also a little confused about the Autorotate option under Advanced in the HP printing preferences. That's what I was thinking would rotate the drawing, but it doesn't seem to for some reason. Thanks again for your help!

Monty

Re: Rotate drawing to portrait for printing? Help!!!!!

danny-cooley — Tue, 10 Nov 2009 09:40:02 GMT

Hello Monty

I've had some similar issues before in the past. I don't have a plotter near me right now (nor a plotter driver on my machine), so can't verify the steps

.... but the problem usually was .... when you set portrait, there is another setting somewhere in the plotter settings box(s) where you have to click "rotation" to "TRUE" (this may be under the "Advanced" tab or button). Can't remember exactly, but essentially there is a second setting somewhere where you need to turn on ("True" I think) to tell it to indeed honour the rotation that you have set (sounds a bit odd, but I've had this several times with different plotters)

Regards

Danny Cooley

Freelance CAD technician

Re: Rotate drawing to portrait for printing? Help!!!!!

caddcop — Tue, 10 Nov 2009 07:42:20 GMT

is your driver specifically set to 24" roll?

We discovered that it was necessary to set the paper in other HP's to use the full amount of printable area. Combined with full sheet, it allowed us to plot 36" wide to a 36" roll. Setting it to Auto-detect or a similar setting did not.

Now that I'm in the office, on the 1st tab of the printer preferences were places to specify page size, paper sourse and roll size if paper is specified. When we did not specify the roll and proper size, the plotter reduced the printable area by 5 or 6 mm and we could not plot across the width if the width was equal to the roll width. Once we changed that, it worked. Different plotters offer different settings, so you may have to search for similar settings. Or , this might be an unrelated issue.