Mastercam X printing

[Tom Flyer]

I paid a visit to one of our outside service shops to discuss some changes to a fixture I sent them, and the design engineer wanted to show off his new version X. After the obligatory oohs & ahs, I asked if I could have a printout of his display to show to our programmers. He looked kinda dismayed and said that he hasn't figured out some printing problems yet. Sending the file to their Epson 1520 (I think) rendered a black background. I asked if they had stock in Epson's ink factories. He said he couldn't get the printer to stop printing the black background, plus the resolution was really crappy. It reminded me of the "jaggies" graphics that were common in the '80s. I suggested trying another printer, and he said one of his associates hooked up an Epson 870 from the front office to it with the same results. I noticed there's no "Plot" command as in 9, so it seems that X doesn't play well with Windows drivers.

Anyone else having an issue with this?

[Thad]

I don't have an answer to all of your questions, but to plot in MCX, you use File-Print.

 

Thad

[Glenn Bouman]

Print quality (or lack of) is a known issue

 

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We are working on the Printer quality, the fixes didn't make it into the Beta though.

 

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Ken Erman - aka PMGuy

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[George Hardwick]

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[George Hardwick]

Sorry about that my IP was banned from posting the other day just checking its ok now.. Sorry about hijack.

George

[Johnny]

Same problem here using an HP PSC 1610. If I print shaded I get the black background

 

How do you overcome this?

 

Cheers

[Stefan Salmen]

Hi,

we have some customers with the same problems here!

Is there a fix planned for SP1?

Any comments from CNC?

 

Stefan

InterCAM Germany

[Bruce Caulley]

I can't believe that no-one picked this up in beta.

[Paul McGarr]

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I can't believe that no-one picked this up in beta.

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I'm sure it was picked up on. There was talk of a service pack well before the release of X which means that Mastercam X was released with known issues. Again, not unusual for a major release, but as discussed in another thread, a "known issues" list would be helpful.

 

Paul

[George Hardwick]

For what help it maybe I have found that if you do not check either colour or shading in the system config.

But check the option in the print page setup,(the shaded option will be greyed out) but you can check colour / date and name. you should get colour printing on white background.

George.

[Bill]

I use an HP 1200 and it seems to print shaded graphics out fine. White background etc... And it actually puts the graphic in the center of the sheet in portrait view (which previous versions would not do).

[Bill]

Although, now messing aorund with it, I have found that it will not print viewports as one page.

 

This feature was buggy in previous versions too.

[captainhook]

We use an HP 7110 printer/scanner/fax/coffee maker/MRI and it seems to work fine - color print on white background and I make no changes to config, etc. In the world of Windows printing, the more things change, the more they remain the same, eh ?

[JBowman]

I've tried a bunch of combinations with the print page setup, config, and printers but I still get black background with white lines. I'll have to wait till a fix is found before I can start using X.

[b_daddy]

Another issue I have with the printing in X is that it only prints the name of the file not the path like v.9 did. This was a nice feature for traceability for ISO

[Mark H]

I have another issue with printing in X...

 

When I select print it goes directly to the default printer and it does not allow me to change printers. The workaround I found is to change the default printer in windows before hitting print. But is it something I am doing wrong or missing? The help file says that there is a print dialog box, but I cant find it, just the page setup which doesnt have any options for printers...

[Mark H]

Just an update with my printing issue...

 

I printed a bunch of stuff today, and wouldnt you know it, the last item I had to print, the print dialog box pop up... really weird. I did end up restarting X before the last print job, so maybe that did something...

[Joel Beaupre CNC Software]

The problem with the black background has been fixed in SP1. The print quality for non-shaded output has been fixed as well. The quality for shaded output is unchanged.

[Fred @ Slate Industries]

"And it actually puts the graphic in the center of the sheet in portrait view (which previous versions would not do)".

 

Can I get my printing back to Top center?

All my set up sheets have the text on the bottom.

[Avs_Fan]

I've found a temporary solution to the black background printing problem. If I change my background color to white before printing, it will print out OK on my black-only HP LJ2100.

Kind of a pain in the @$$ but it gets me usable setup sheets until SP1 makes all things right.

Now the question is, when will SP1 be available?

[KCollins]

i'm hearing that SP1 is supposed to be out in three or four days, or at least thats what they told me in the intro seminar today