Printing Nest Diagrams

[Kerry Fullington]

Why does eCabinets spool only one page at a time to the printer when printing Nest diagrams. On a 250 page nest this takes forever to print as the printer must start and stop 250 times?

Kerry

[Nick M Singer]

Kerry you certainly surprised me with this one so I just ran a quick test. It sends all pages to my printer on my system so maybe it is your printer memory or settings?

[DanEpps]

Make sure you have the printer set to spool and start printing immediately (right-click on printer->properties->advanced tab).

Was gonna post a screenshot but keep getting error on forum.

[Kerry Fullington]

Nick, Dan,

This happens on both my printers, an Epson ink jet and a Dell color laser.

I checked settings on both and they both have the
Spool Print Documents so the program finishes printing faster
and the Start Printing immediately radio buttons selected

eCabinets has always behaved this way for me. It can take a half day to print out a nest.

The laser printer has 1gig of memory so I don't think that is the problem.

Kerry

[Nick M Singer]

HI Kerry. I have run eCabs on many different system and they all printed at the correct speed and never manifest the problem you describe. So as unhelpful as it seems the problem lies somewhere in your particular installation or system.

[DanEpps]

Now that I think of it, I do remember that eCabinets spools a separate print job for each page.

Nick--next time you print a nest, open the printer monitor and see if it doesn't spool a jpb for each page.

[Kerry Fullington]

I am going to try selecting Start Printing After last page is spooled. Maybe this will let them print without all the starting and stopping.

I am also going to check for driver updates. It can't hurt.

I tried to print to pdf and then I would print the pdf to eliminate this problem but once again each page is separate and acrobat asks for a file name for each page.

[Nick M Singer]

It may well spool a seperate file per page but I have never noticed a slow down in printing and the pages spew out one after the other like any document.

[Kerry Fullington]

Nick, Dan,

Finally had a chance to print another nest. I don't know if it was the "Print after last page is spooled" setting or the new printer drivers (along with firnware updates) but the laser printer spits them out fast now.

Thanks for the help. I always blamed the problem on eCabinets.

Kerry

[DanEpps]

That's good...what about the inkjet?

[Kerry Fullington]

Dan,

I haven't played with it yet. An inkjet is too expensive and slow for nests anyway if the other printer is working.

A little story about my inkjet. It stopped printing one day and I got an error that said I would have to contact support. I emailed support and the problem was a printing count clock that shuts the printer down when the pad that cleans the print heads should be replaced.
Support actually told me that this error was rare, that most of the printers either break down or the owners replace them for a newer model before this error occurs. They said I could try a service center to replace the pad but my best bet was to buy a new printer. I found a reset utility on the internet and continued printing. Support also said that if I didn't replace the pad or tried to replace it myself it would void any extended warranty I might have.
Ain't technology grand?

Kerry