I am having an issue with printing to a Dell 1700 printer.
I am hoping that someone may have run into this issue before andcan give me some advice.
The problem is as follows:
When printing to this printer over a TCP/IP network connection theprint speed is extremely slow, but the drawings print fine.
When printing to the same printer hooked into a USB port thedrawings print at a good speed but the outside lines on the drawingare not solid or dark. This is causing quite an issue for us aswhen drawings are printed on vellum the outside lines are notvisible. Has anyone seen this issue before and do you have anysolutions for it?
I am hoping that someone may have run into this issue before andcan give me some advice.
The problem is as follows:
When printing to this printer over a TCP/IP network connection theprint speed is extremely slow, but the drawings print fine.
When printing to the same printer hooked into a USB port thedrawings print at a good speed but the outside lines on the drawingare not solid or dark. This is causing quite an issue for us aswhen drawings are printed on vellum the outside lines are notvisible. Has anyone seen this issue before and do you have anysolutions for it?
We have a 1700 in our workgroup and it's very fast to print over the network.
We have it spooled from a Windows 2003 server. We have 7 people printing to it all the time.
Maybe the install wasn't clean on the server (assuming you are working that way)?
I just wanted to say that it's possible with that printer to have good performance over a network.
We have recently made a change in out configuration to where wehave loaded SolidWorks to run off of a server rather than onidvidual workstations. This problem has gotten worse since thismove was done.
should I try spooling this printer off of the server thatSolidWorks is runninf off of?
We install the printer/plotter software, and the printer "lives" there. Then, you just "add a printer" in Windows on your workstation and pick the server it's loaded on.
If I plot a drawing to our HP Designjet (wide format) or to our little Dell laser printer, it never takes more than 10-15 seconds from when I hit print until I hear the plotter or printer starting.
You may want to look at how much memory your printer server (Windows 2003 server) has. We have a laser engraver that runs off a desktop workstation and it was getting slower as we were loading more complex (and larger) graphics into it to print. When we upgraded the memory in the workstation the printing went along much faster.
Granted this isn't a Soldworks case study, but I believe the same principles may apply.