HP DesignJet 1050 prints too short

Noam behemothkind at hotmail.com
Wed Sep 13 03:37:20 PDT 2006


So I went back to the roots...

I tried to print out an A1 drawing on the Oce400 printer. I first checked that the drawing is really A1 by opening it with Acrobat Reader and looking at the info. By its size it is an A1.

Than I converted the pdf into a ps (pdftops) without using any attributes and then I sent the following command to the printer over the shell: lp -d Ocr-400TDS02 06-430400.ps

What I got was an A3 print. Hmm....

My printer is configured as follows:
Resolution: 600 dpi
Roll Switch: on
Collate: on
Media Size: A0
Media source: Roll 2 (even that I have both installed)
Media Type: Plain Paper
Print Mode: Poster Mode
Roll 2: installed
No banners are used.

Can any of you guys/girls see something wrong about my configuration?
I connect to the printed over lpd: lpd://my.great.ip.address/OceTDS400PS

Than I sent the same ps-file to the DesignJet1050 printer. Like this: lp -d DesignJet_1050C 06-430400.ps

What I got had technically the size of an A1. BUT: the bottom side of the print was missing about 2cm  and the print was wrongly rotated so I can’t use it since it is not possible to correctly fold such a print (before delivering it to the client). When the printer was configured to: “scale to format: A0” Only about a third of the drawing was printed. The print was wrongly placed on the paper and the rotation was wrong as well.

My printer is configured as follows:
It is in German so I will do my best to translate...

Print color as gray tone: no
Color management: non
Print mirrored: no
Half toner through application: don’t allow
Brightness: unchanged
Rotate: yes
Scale to format: non
Print priority: contrast
Print quality: normal
Media size: A0
Media source: Roll
Installed memory: standard
No banners were used
PS Binary Protocol: TBCP

Can you people see anything strange in my configuration?

I will be glad to send you the drawing if you are interested in checking it out. I don’t know if any of you people own such big plotters but maybe there is some chance...

Maybe if you get the same results I would know the problem lies on the file. What I personally don’t believe since when printed from a windows client it can be easily fitted to any desired page size.

What do you say?

Noam



> Helge Blischke wrote:
> > ...
> > The fitplot option has originally been designed for the hpgltops filter
> > but is valid for
> > the pstops filter from a certain version on (I don't remember from which
> > one)
>
> CUPS 1.1.20 added support for "fitplot" when printing PDF files.
>
> CUPS 1.2 added support for "fitplot" with all file types.
>
> --
> ______________________________________________________________________
> Michael Sweet, Easy Software Products           mike at easysw dot com
> Internet Printing and Document Software          http://www.easysw.com





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