Printing problem to Brother HL1650

[mackerr]

I have problems printing to my Brother laser printer and also to "PrinttoPDF" from VW9. Sometimes only parts of the drawing that I got as .dwg's print, sometimes only text. I have tried over my network, which goes through an Asante FR3004 cable router with print server, and by direct USB connection locally to the printer. Both exhibit the same problems. All my other apps, including VW8.5 work fine over the network or direct. I have not tried VW8.5 to "PrinttoPDF". I have assigned 100M of RAM on my Mac PBG4 to VW9 and I have upped the memory of all the print monitor apps and I have 72M of RAM in the printer. The files I am attempting to print are fairly simple plan views of convention center and hotel ballroom setups.

Mac

[Matthew Giampapa]

Assuming you imported the dxf layers as classes, change your class options to show snap modify.

Then use the select all command and use the cut command to move the objects to the clipboard. Go to a new document and use the paste in place command. Does this resemble what was printing? If so you will need to go back to the original and ungroup any remaining objects which were left behind and repeat.

Once you have moved and ungrouped the document to a new file try printing again.

If this does not resolve the printing problem, please send an email with the dxf and the VectorWorks file to tech@nemeschek.net with a brief description of the problem or link to this message board thread.

Matthew Giampapa

Technical Support

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Originally posted by mackerr:

I have problems printing to my Brother laser printer and also to "PrinttoPDF" from VW9. Sometimes only parts of the drawing that I got as .dwg's print, sometimes only text. I have tried over my network, which goes through an Asante FR3004 cable router with print server, and by direct USB connection locally to the printer. Both exhibit the same problems. All my other apps, including VW8.5 work fine over the network or direct. I have not tried VW8.5 to "PrinttoPDF". I have assigned 100M of RAM on my Mac PBG4 to VW9 and I have upped the memory of all the print monitor apps and I have 72M of RAM in the printer. The files I am attempting to print are fairly simple plan views of convention center and hotel ballroom setups.

Mac

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[mackerr]

Having to create a new file in order to print hardly qualifies as resolving the problem. While I did not mentoin it in my original post, I have tried ungrouping and making all symbols into groups and ungrouping. i am on the road now and can't try that printer but exporting as Ver 8.5 and printing from 8.5 works fine. It is still not a solutionfor the problem of printing from Ver9.

mac kerr

[Matthew Giampapa]

Your right, any file that displays in VectorWorks should print how it displays. Printing can sometimes be tricky with imported files because when they are converted it is not always done the same was as VectorWorks user would draw the same thing.

I hate to sound like a broken record, but please send an email to tech@nemetschek.net with the dxf and the imported file so we can have whatever is causing this fixed in the future.

Matthew Giampapa

Technical Support

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Originally posted by mackerr:

Having to create a new file in order to print hardly qualifies as resolving the problem. While I did not mentoin it in my original post, I have tried ungrouping and making all symbols into groups and ungrouping. i am on the road now and can't try that printer but exporting as Ver 8.5 and printing from 8.5 works fine. It is still not a solutionfor the problem of printing from Ver9.

mac kerr

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[This message has been edited by Matthew Giampapa (edited 10-09-2001).]