colinhorn

Now that sounds like a plan, wil definately try that, thanks! Colin

Kevin thanks for your message, I too have hope, I think it might be my print settings in Vectorworks, not having had a plotter before I'm not sure what the settings should, if i save a document to PDF first, it prints out fine it's just the direct from VW routine that is not working. I'll let you know how I get on once the memory has arrived and been fitted. Colin

Thanks for your prompt answer Katie. We downloaded the XP driver yesterday from the HP site and use VW11. By chance I ordered a 32mb memory module for the plotter this afternoon so with luck this might work long term but I'll certainly try the rasterizing output in the short term. Will let you know how I get on Colin

Having used a plot house for some time, we decided to buy a plotter from Ebay (sorry HP) and got a great HP Designjet 450C. it works fine with Autocad but when we try to plot from VW11 the plot starts to plot fine then hangs and all three of the error lights come on. if we turn the machine off and on again it will print a test print fine from XP but each time a VW drawing is tried it fails. Any ideas anyone? Many thanks Colin