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occasional large blocks of black ink


C. Deel

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Using VW Architect 10.1.2 and Gimp-Print 4.2.5:

At apparently random intervals, our plots (from an HP 455CA and an HP 430) come out like this:

The drawing we plotted is there, but all compressed along the top couple inches of the sheet (along the long edge). The rest of the sheet is full of 100% black with a few thin white breaks in it (running lengthwise). This makes a mess and uses tons of ink. We can basically determine no pattern to when this occurs.

I'm not sure whether to blame VW, Gimp-Print, or our network hardware.

Has ANYBODY else seen this behavior?

Thanks,

Chris

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have the same problem with the same plotter (hp 455ca).

my OS is Win XP and anytime i try to print any entity that is not solid (a pattern or a hatch), everything turns into black. i've tried to print the same file on a win 98 and everythign was OK. i though it was an issue about Win XP and VW 9. i tried the VW Viewer 10 and the same problems occur. i guess my plotter is kinda old... i haven't check any driver updates, might be it.

sometimes text boxes print jambled too, when it happens i stop the process and unckeck 'scale text' in the 'layers' tab. always works.

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