AutoCad can not find system printer

[hman]

hello rkent--
Is there such a thing as the acad print manager file being corrupt. Can i get another of these files and overwrite, or replace? Just grasping at straws. I have been living with this problem for a long time

[rkent]

Post another screen shot of your plot dialog with the error message not on top. It looks like you may have plot to file checked somewhere as even though you have the Canon selected it is showing a DWF plotter and plotting to a file with .dwf extension.

[hman]

hello rkent.. you are correct. it is trying to plot to a .dwf extention I have never seen that extension. How do I change it back to .dwg?

[rkent]

I don't have 2004 here to check but there must be a setting in options to plot to .dwf for plots. Just a guess really, hopefully someone with 2004 can chime in. Also post at autodesk.com, they my have a 2004 section.

[hman]

thanks rkent--
i will keep on plugging along with this. thanks for the help

[Brock55X]

Superb information can be found on these kind of boards. Many thanks guys.

[rkent]

hman, When you are setting the cannon for plotting in AutoCAD, somewhere in that setup is a "plot to file" or "plot to dwf" checkmark, watch in there for that and uncheck. Look for the Ports tab while in the .pc3 file.

[hman]

hello rkent--
I will look for the canon set-up as you have suggested. When I have been in the set-up before, I know that it is messed up because it does not offer any ports for my canon printer. I cannot find anything to check or uncheck, but I will keep digging. Hopefully I will stumble on the correct page, and all will be well.

[hman]

hello rkent--
I really think that the error comes before the canon printer install. I believe it is somewhere in the acad configuration, as my print menu does not show any network printer, this is not isolated to the cannon. please see printer screen shot attached. These are my printers on my other acad systems they would all be visible, but not on this computer. So I don't think this system is finding any of the windows system printers.

[SLW210]

See if THIS helps.