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
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[Guest]

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