Printing invisible lines

[Tom Flyer]

Our version 9.1 SP2 has been printing extra lines that aren't visible on screen to an HP2500C printer of late. These lines generally go the full length of the paper. I fixed this once by Xform - Translating the page to another area of the screen, but even that isn't working anymore. Any ideas?

[Todd Tracey from Fastech]

Do you possibly have entities that are the same color as your screen background? Try changing levels of all color 0 (black) and then check entities with only that level active. If you see any entities in the list that was it. You could also try changing all color 0 (black) to some other visible color and see if something shows up that way as well. HTH

[Steve Zirtzman]

Tom,

Are you zoomed in on a large file? Try using the Hide function to select only the entities you want to print to remain in the graphics window when you Fit[Alt+F1].

[Tom Flyer]

Steve,

Yes, I have a series of operation sheet borders lined up and I zoom in on each one to print to B-size paper. I'll give that a try. What bothers us is where those lines come from in the first place. I remember some time ago that the Drag function used to leave stuff that you couldn't see, but printed.

As General Halftrack is wont to say: "Now what?"

[Tom Flyer]

OK - this bugged me to no end the past few days, so I came in early this morning to try and figure this out, and hooked up my trusty Epson 800 printer to the PC and got a 'normal' printout. Upon further investigation, I learned that one of our wannabe tech wizards (AKA: IT dept) replaced the printer drivers for the HP2500. Apparently, latest ain't always the greatest. I replaced the drivers with the 'old' ones and all was well again.

I would like to kill, crush, and pulverize the IT Dept into oblivion, but I think that may be wrong.

My thanks to Steve and Todd for their interest and replies.

Excuse me while I go take a nap now.