JCorum939444
2012-01-04, 07:57 PM
After our office had a server upgrade, we all noticed an incredibly increased amount of time it takes to print any drawing that has a raster image. Some drawings would take upwards of ten minutes to print! Publishing multiple drawings then becomes an impossibility, unless someone is willing to wait all day to get their prints. Before the server upgrade, we had no printing problems whatsoever. Our IT guys swear it has nothing to do with the upgrade, which is possible, but suspect. We also brought in new Win7 machines and upgraded everyone to AutoCAD 2012 at the same time. Out AutoCAD rep is stunned by the problem (and probably a little annoyed), but has yet to supply any possible solutions.
These are not very complicated drawings; each only has a single raster image (if any), with no more than ten layers at the most (two at the least), nothing larger than D-sized. We mainly print to either of two HP Laserjet M5035. When printing to the plotter (Canon iPF600), we don't seem to experience any sort of delays -- except for the cases where the drawing is sent to the plotter's queue, only to disappear, unprinted, seconds later.
I've gone back and forth with our AutoCAD rep, as well as our IT group and the Autodesk Support Team. Nobody has come up with anything that actually solves the problem. The printer drivers are all up-to-date and we upgraded our router to something beefier in the meanwhile. I've since changed the raster/OLE quality settings on all the plot files with no result.
We do an awful lot of printing in the office and aren't primed to change policy anytime soon. Unfortunately, production reaches a stand-still while we await prints. I've been able to hold off the pitchforks by having people batch plot in small groupings but it's still an unacceptable change.
These are not very complicated drawings; each only has a single raster image (if any), with no more than ten layers at the most (two at the least), nothing larger than D-sized. We mainly print to either of two HP Laserjet M5035. When printing to the plotter (Canon iPF600), we don't seem to experience any sort of delays -- except for the cases where the drawing is sent to the plotter's queue, only to disappear, unprinted, seconds later.
I've gone back and forth with our AutoCAD rep, as well as our IT group and the Autodesk Support Team. Nobody has come up with anything that actually solves the problem. The printer drivers are all up-to-date and we upgraded our router to something beefier in the meanwhile. I've since changed the raster/OLE quality settings on all the plot files with no result.
We do an awful lot of printing in the office and aren't primed to change policy anytime soon. Unfortunately, production reaches a stand-still while we await prints. I've been able to hold off the pitchforks by having people batch plot in small groupings but it's still an unacceptable change.