I've been having printing problems with Solidworks for a few months now.
A0 formats do not print correctly. The plan prints in full, but the color no longer prints about 300mm from the end of printing..... In addition, on some views of the plan (or detail area), 3/4 of the lines are missing...
I tried to activate/descative, all the possible printing options but without success... and since it is A0 format, the waste of paper is starting to be significant.
The idea is not bad: If the printing is done well from Edrawing, it is because the problem comes from Solidworks and if it is not good, you may have to look at the printer.
So I just tried it with printing the A0 with Edrawings, and it worked! (apart from a 3D view with the colors completely blurred ..), so I have my plan with color everywhere and everything appears well...
ok, so let's see if it's the printer that's misconfigured or if it's Solidworks that's messing up. but already it seems more like a problem with the printer than with Solidworks.
See the line weights, how they are configured! Too small or too large can be misinterpreted by the printer.
Check if possible if you have the latest driver for your printer!
I just did a driver update search, and it tells me that this one is up to date.
After some research on the net, I think it might be a problem with computer memory / printer memory ...
Since the problem only appears with the A0, which are quite loaded with color, details and 3D view, it must come from the printer's memory which must be chosen by default.
On the other hand I can't find how to force it to respect the memory of the computer (or software) ....
To fix the problem, you have to go to the plotter options and set the Send bitmap task option to Enabled and the maximum resolution of the application to 300pp.
For us this solved the pb on 2 types of tracer.
Soidworks sends the prints in high quality compared to edrawing and the printer can be limited in memory and therefore comes out of white areas...
But the quality of 300pp is more than enough for my taste.
To fix the problem, you have to go to the plotter options and set the Send bitmap task option to Enabled and the maximum resolution of the application to 300pp.
For us this solved the pb on 2 types of tracer.
Soidworks sends the prints in high quality compared to edrawing and the printer can be limited in memory and therefore comes out of white areas...
But the quality of 300pp is more than enough for my taste.
Go to 300pp already it can only improve, and also try it with resolution managed by the application (I don't know how it was displayed on our old plotter).
Unless the option is in another tab (it changes depending on the driver and especially the printer)
The option is may be named differently print as an image or other similar terms.
To fix the problem, you have to go to the plotter options and set the Send bitmap task option to Enabled and the maximum resolution of the application to 300pp.
For us this solved the pb on 2 types of tracer.
Soidworks sends the prints in high quality compared to edrawing and the printer can be limited in memory and therefore comes out of white areas...
But the quality of 300pp is more than enough for my taste.