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jmoses · Guest

Hello everyone. I've read several postings but nothing seems to work. I am using AutoCAD 2005 and printing to a Ricoh 240 at my local print shop. I plot from paperspace. The problem is the bottom margin - its at the very bottom edge of my paper and will not shift no matter what I try. I've gone into the custom plot tabs within the plotters .pc3 file, changed the x, y offset under the plot window, and reset my plotoffset variable to one (1). Still the margin will not move. Any help or suggestions is greatly appreciated. Thanks is advance.

Tim · Guest

Do you paper margins set up on the sheet on a plotable layer. I know with
our OCE it wont see anything on either defpoints or a unplottable layer,
thus it finds the first thing it can see namely the border itself.

Tim W.

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jmoses · Guest

Forgive my ignorance, but I'm not sure I understand the question. My layers including my title block are all on custom layers. I usually place anything I don't wanted visibly plotted on defpoints. My margins are typically the default printable area that shows up when changing the driver. My plot preview shows up normal, my plots are a different story. If I didn't give you the information you needed, please rephrase and I'll do the best I can to answer your questions.

Martin Shoemaker · Guest

I can't speak directly about your plotter, but I see the same thing on
my Oce, just like Tim. To center a plot on the Oce TDS400 I add
registration marks 0.04" in from where the edge of the paper should be.
These marks go in the upper left and lower right corners. I make them
color 255, which prints at 0% screen in my pen table, and they are on a
printing layer. What this does is place a printing object just inside
the 0.03" non-printing border that the Oce is set for.

The issue with the Oce is that it doesn't see anything on the outer
0.03" because of the non-printing area. It will center whatever it sees
that's not in the non-printing area. Adding the registration marks
makes sure that the plotter sees a plot that's, say, 23.92" X 35.92"
instead of whatever dimensions the title block is.

This may not be your problem, but it might get you headed in the right
direction.

Martin

jmoses wrote:
> Forgive my ignorance, but I'm not sure I understand the question. My layers including my title block are all on custom layers. I usually place anything I don't wanted visibly plotted on defpoints. My margins are typically the default printable area that shows up when changing the driver. My plot preview shows up normal, my plots are a different story. If I didn't give you the information you needed, please rephrase and I'll do the best I can to answer your questions.

Tim · Guest

Try either the registration marks that Martin spoke of or try putting a box
at the plottable dimensions (i.e. 24x36, 30x42 etc) around your border on a
layer that is to plot. Then center the border inside the box as necessary
and give it a go.

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