Issues printing to A1 plotter from XP

[Russell Napier]

Hi,

I have a problem printing to a HP Designjet A1 plotter
from Windows XP. When printing it misses out most of the
print and only prints a small section of the diagram. The
machine used to be Windows 98 and worked fine but ever
since being re-deployed as a Windows XP machine it no
longer works.

I have tried printing a large Excel spreadsheet and this
generates the same problem.

Does anyone have any idea's why this may not be printing
correctly?

Many thanks

Russell

[Hal Hostetler [MVP DTS]]

There is a commercial diver solution available here:

http://www.draftingsolutions.nu/
WinLINE plotter driver

They have an XP version, it appears to offer more flexibility than the
native XP driver. All of their drivers are a bit pricey...

Hal
--
Hal Hostetler, CPBE --
Senior Engineer/MIS -- MS MVP-DTS -- WA7BGX
http://www.kvoa.com -- "When News breaks, we fix it!"
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"Russell Napier" > wrote in message
...
> Hi,
>
> I have a problem printing to a HP Designjet A1 plotter
> from Windows XP. When printing it misses out most of the
> print and only prints a small section of the diagram. The
> machine used to be Windows 98 and worked fine but ever
> since being re-deployed as a Windows XP machine it no
> longer works.
>
> I have tried printing a large Excel spreadsheet and this
> generates the same problem.
>
> Does anyone have any idea's why this may not be printing
> correctly?
>
> Many thanks
>
> Russell

Thanks Hal,

I was hoping that there was an update to the driver is
SP2 for XP rather than having to buy a new one. it seems
that this is a known XP issue and due to an issue with
print jobs with over 4 billion pixels.

Russell


>-----Original Message-----
>There is a commercial diver solution available here:
>
>http://www.draftingsolutions.nu/
>WinLINE plotter driver
>
>They have an XP version, it appears to offer more
flexibility than the
>native XP driver. All of their drivers are a bit
pricey...
>
>Hal
>--
>Hal Hostetler, CPBE --
>Senior Engineer/MIS -- MS MVP-DTS -- WA7BGX
>http://www.kvoa.com -- "When News breaks, we fix it!"
>KVOA Television, Tucson, AZ. NBC NBC-IN
>Got Blues? - www.badnewsbluesband.com
>
>
>"Russell Napier" > wrote in
message
...
>> Hi,
>>
>> I have a problem printing to a HP Designjet A1 plotter
>> from Windows XP. When printing it misses out most of
the
>> print and only prints a small section of the diagram.
The
>> machine used to be Windows 98 and worked fine but ever
>> since being re-deployed as a Windows XP machine it no
>> longer works.
>>
>> I have tried printing a large Excel spreadsheet and
this
>> generates the same problem.
>>
>> Does anyone have any idea's why this may not be
printing
>> correctly?
>>
>> Many thanks
>>
>> Russell
>
>
>.
>