I'm experiencing problem plotting from Mac OSX 10.4.11 to HP DesignJet T1100.
Here's the story.
We used a good old DesignJet600 with MacPlot plotter driver.
We just upgraded to the T1100, that works good with OS X, except for some particular drawings.
It happens that the plotter driver software spools the drawing until the spooling progression bar gets to the end, and then nothing else. It should begin to print but nothing else happens.
I contacted HP support and they say that HP's Mac OS X plotter driver is not specifically suited for CAD drawings (!!!!) but just a generic "office" driver. This mean it has no direct HPGL2 output but instead it performs a mere image rasterization. They suggested to check with a specialized CAD driver like MacPlot (not knowing it's not anymore in production...).
Windows driver instead outputs to a complete HPGL2 file...
Well, now I know HP has done a very poor work with Mac OS X driver.
I'm trying to use the windows driver (with Parallels+Win XP+Vectorworks Viewer) and see.
One question to XP/Windows users. Is it possibile to have custom sized paper for the T1100? How?
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I'm experiencing problem plotting from Mac OSX 10.4.11 to HP DesignJet T1100.
Here's the story.
We used a good old DesignJet600 with MacPlot plotter driver.
We just upgraded to the T1100, that works good with OS X, except for some particular drawings.
It happens that the plotter driver software spools the drawing until the spooling progression bar gets to the end, and then nothing else. It should begin to print but nothing else happens.
I contacted HP support and they say that HP's Mac OS X plotter driver is not specifically suited for CAD drawings (!!!!) but just a generic "office" driver. This mean it has no direct HPGL2 output but instead it performs a mere image rasterization. They suggested to check with a specialized CAD driver like MacPlot (not knowing it's not anymore in production...).
Windows driver instead outputs to a complete HPGL2 file...
Well, now I know HP has done a very poor work with Mac OS X driver.
I'm trying to use the windows driver (with Parallels+Win XP+Vectorworks Viewer) and see.
One question to XP/Windows users. Is it possibile to have custom sized paper for the T1100? How?
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