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posted: 11 Apr 2008 01:55 from: jeckardt
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You can definately treat this one as FYI and low priority... I noticed the "colour printing" toggle on the print menu and decided to give it a try. I set my printer to our "Tektronix Phaser 850DP" printer, then selected "colour printing". Templot reported, "Your current printer is not a colour printer, or has not been set for colour printing." Entering printer setup from there allowed me to confirm that the correct printer was indeed selected, and that it was indeed enabled for colour. Not quite sure how to remedy that... and I'm not inclined to spend much time figuring it out. B/W is quite adequate. Joe |
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posted: 11 Apr 2008 02:28 from: Martin Wynne
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jeckardt wrote: I set my printer to our "Tektronix Phaser 850DP" printer, then selected "colour printing". Templot reported, "Your current printer is not a colour printer, or has not been set for colour printing.Hi Joe, Is this a laser printer? There was a similar report recently for a laser colour printer. Ink-jet printing is recommended for construction templates. Laser printers heat the paper, which can lead to differential distortion and misalignments. Is this a network printer? If so try setting the printer as the default printer and making sure it is switched on and ready before starting Templot. Templot builds a reference list of printer information during startup. Adding a printer after Templot is running can cause problems. In the next pug you will be able to create a PDF file instead of direct printing. Printing can then be done via Adobe Reader if necessary. Adobe have more resources than me to do battle with troublesome printer drivers!  regards, Martin. |
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posted: 11 Apr 2008 04:45 from: jeckardt
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Martin Wynne wrote: Is this a laser printer? There was a similar report recently for a laser colour printer. It's called a "phaser"... a proprietary technology by Tektronix that is roughly similar to a laser printer. It's affectionately known as an "electric crayon" as it deposits hot wax micro-beads onto the paper. I do understand the warning about heat distortions to the paper, and may indeed apply to this printer. It is a network printer, is indeed my default printer, and is always online and active. Definately not a new printer definition on this computer. Btw, it prints fine to that printer in B/W. It only balks if I tell templot to print in color. Anyway, I'm not going to lose much sleep over this one. I tried it mostly out of curiousity. Any real drawing will be in B/W anyway. But thought it might be interesting to use color if I ever tried using a background bitmap or something. Thanks, Joe |
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posted: 11 Apr 2008 19:47 from: Martin Wynne
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jeckardt wrote:Any real drawing will be in B/W anyway. But thought it might be interesting to use color if I ever tried using a background bitmap or something.Hi Joe, I have now tested 091c on a range of printers and virtual printers. They are all correctly swapping between black & white or colour output, and Templot is correctly detecting when they have been set for black & white printing only. So I can only assume that your printer driver is at fault. There might be an updated driver available for downloading from the manufacturer. If you decide to print background bitmaps (picture shapes), Templot doesn't check for a match between the colour depth of the bitmap and the colour depth of the printer. That is left to the printer driver to make any adjustments needed. You may find that a bitmap prints in colour even though Templot insists that the driver requires the templates to be drawn in black & white. If you want to use only black ink on a colour printer, you will find the grey shade printing option in Templot produces much neater-looking templates. regards, Martin. |
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