Hmm, we are looking at buying one of these . . . :-( We run both AutoCAD R14 and Architectural Desktop 3.3. What version of AutoCAD are you running?
Remember, AutoCAD has its own printer drivers and bypasses windoze. Our AutoCAD R14 uses HP/GL2 settings and is very fast on our JDL3500's. When we use a windoze program to print to our JDL's, we use the windoze drivers (Corel, Quark, etc). I am not sure about the ADT3.3 but can ask our CAD dude. Note - we have two print queues on the print server (W2K server) that have different drivers (HP/GL2 and JDL's windows driver). We did have a MAJOR speed issue on two HP8500N's that was fixed by putting the Standard HP TCP/IP port software on the print server. We went from 55mins to ~ 10 mins to print a PowerPoint slide show. Is this software on the workstation or print server? You say the print job is spooling for 10-15 mins? That means to workstation takes that long to create the print job. Does it go fast once it finishes spooling? If so, look at the AutoCAD configuration. Maybe make a new printer in AutoCAD that uses HP/GL2. If it involves changing pc2 files, I would post to a AutoDesk newsgroup. HTH, DL Meade, CNE, MCP Network Administrator Frankfurt-Short-Bruza www.fsb-ae.com www.oklahomadome.com -----Original Message----- From: Lum, David [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Wednesday, December 18, 2002 11:30 AM To: NT 2000 Discussions Subject: Plotters I'm having an issue with VERY SLOW performance from a new and supposedly fast HP (DesignJet 5500) plotter. Print time from Autocad is 10-15 minutes from submit to print, for a < 2Mb file! Details: Client PC is W2K pro, newer 1.6GHz Dell, big RAM, HDD, etc. Autocad is current version. Server is W2K and Dell 4400 (again, lots of ram and plenty of CPU). LAN is 100Mbit incl. Jetdiret card in plotter. Windows test prints to plotter are fast. Watching the queue on the server it sits in spooling mode for the 10-15mins. Speed test script copies .5Mb file in under 50ms. 2 different clients have this problem (only 2 print to this plotter) I installed the "HP Standard TCP/IP port" from HP and it cut the time from 20+ minutes to the above <ahem> "faster" times. Anyone have experience with this? Printing to other HP printers on this network is fine. Feel free to contact me off list if you feel this isn't entirely W2K related. Thanks in advance, Dave Lum - [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sr. Network Specialist - Textron Financial 503-675-5510 ------ You are subscribed as [EMAIL PROTECTED] Archives: http://www.swynk.com/sitesearch/search.asp To unsubscribe send a blank email to %%email.unsub%% ------ You are subscribed as [email protected] Archives: http://www.swynk.com/sitesearch/search.asp To unsubscribe send a blank email to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
