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March 22, 2010
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Plotter Config File help

  • March 22, 2010
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My department just purchashed a new plotter last week (HP Designjet T770) and discovered some issues when plotting directly from Wildfire 4.0 M050. For awhile we have been using .pcf (plotter config files) for custom pen widths on our old plotter. But now I have tried to copy and modify the .pcf file for this new plotter. But it seems that I can't get Pro/e to plot to this printer. Although I can plot from other sources (i.e. adobe acrobat, etc) Can anyone help? I have called into PTC tech support and don't seem to have a clear soulution. Below is the text we have been using for our .pcf file: plotter postscript button_name: HP770, Dsize, Release print delete_after_plotting: yes interface_quality: 1 paper_size: variable 36.0 24.5 pen_table_file: ...Plotter_config_files\pentable_HP770CM_release.pnt plot_label: yes plot_names: yes plot_with_panzoom: no !plot_sheets: current plot_translate: 0.0 0.5 in plotter_command: windows_print_manager HP Designjet T770
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24-Ruby III
March 23, 2010

"Joe Garcia" wrote:

My department just purchashed a new plotter last week (HP Designjet T770) and discovered some issues when plotting directly from Wildfire 4.0 M050. For awhile we have been using .pcf (plotter config files) for custom pen widths on our old plotter. But now I have tried to copy and modify the .pcf file for this new plotter. But it seems that I can't get Pro/e to plot to this printer. Although I can plot from other sources (i.e. adobe acrobat, etc) Can anyone help? I have called into PTC tech support and don't seem to have a clear soulution. Below is the text we have been using for our .pcf file: plotter postscript button_name: HP770, Dsize, Release print delete_after_plotting: yes interface_quality: 1 paper_size: variable 36.0 24.5 pen_table_file: ...Plotter_config_files\pentable_HP770CM_release.pnt plot_label: yes plot_names: yes plot_with_panzoom: no !plot_sheets: current plot_translate: 0.0 0.5 in plotter_command: windows_print_manager HP Designjet T770

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March 23, 2010
Looks like our old plotter the HP Designjet 755CM did support postscript. Now I'm wondering how to modify our .pcf file to accept these new languages? Thanks for the help so far...
24-Ruby III
March 23, 2010

"Joe Garcia" wrote:

Looks like our old plotter the HP Designjet 755CM did support postscript. Now I'm wondering how to modify our .pcf file to accept these new languages? Thanks for the help so far...