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I am using Revit Architecture 2008 on the first Revit project in our office. Here's my station spec: Dell Inc. Inspiron 5302.33 gigahertz Intel Core2 Duo64 kilobyte primary memory cache4096 kilobyte secondary memory cacheBus Clock: 333 megahertzBIOS: Dell Inc. 1.0.3 07/12/20073328 Megabytes Installed Memory We have a 10/100 network that is error free (for the time being). I am trying to plot a couple of 30"x42" sheets with floor plans and one 3D view on a HP DesignJet 1055CM (with RAM 64+64 MB and hard disk: 3102MB). The Revit file size is 14 MB. The plots are taking forever (30 minutes +), or the plotter just hangs. I am using "Normal" quality and have tried processing "In printer" and "In computer" which produce the same results. I also tried to plot to PDF and the Acrobat Distiller crashed, even with it set to "smallest file size". I plotted 11"x17" to HP Color LaserJet 5500 (352 MB memory) and HP LaserJet 5000 (164 MB memory) and both came out fine, though the HP 5000 printed a filled region a bit strangely. We don't usually have problems in other software with the HP 1055, though it does take a while on some large presentation files, but that's to be expected. Any thoughts or suggestions will be greatly appreciated.
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How many Linked DWG (AutoCad) files do you have? How many "model lines" do you have? Do you have the Shadow's on? Did you try Raster printing, not Vector..
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did you ever resolve this issue? I am plotting from RAC2010 to an HP1055 as well, and the sheets (34x44) are printing slower than i have ever seen a 1055 plot; and they are just floor plans with some filled regions. I printed a half size set of the same file last night without any issues.
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First, make sure you have shadows turned off, Revit struggles with that. as well, make sure you are using Vector processing in your printer settings, Raster will move a lot of data to the printer and can take forever.
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Thanks eldados, but that those were some of the first things i double checked when i realized i had a problem. it seems to only be happening on sheets that have building sections, but only at certain times. I am suspecting now some issue with the queue on the print server.
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in that case I will check the printer drivers and make sure you have the current ones. as well send the same print to another printer, if it does print in a normal time, you know it's the printer's drivers... Do you get the same issues when you print to PDF?
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I found that one of my linked DWG files was causing most of the problem, and the DWG file wasn't that large. Revit didn't like something about it I guess. Once I narrowed it down and unlinked that file it got much better, though it still takes 2 or 3 times longer than any plot ever did with AutoCad.
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