autocad 2004 on windows 7

[DANIEL]

I have a co-worker who has installed Autocad 2004 on a machine with windows 7 and is having difficulting getting the printers to to pull up in AutoCAD. Has anyone else experienced this issue and if so how did you resolve it? Any help on this would be greatly appreciated. Thanks.

[ReMark]

I've got Autocad 2004 32-bit version running on a Windows 7 Ultimate 64-bit version and have no problem printing. How many printers have been installed in Windows? What printers are these? What type of connections are you using (parallel port, USB, over a network, other)?

[DANIEL]

Are you having to select the windows default printer? Thats our current work around which sucks if you need to print to a different machine. We currently have 3 printers installed over a network, the default is a Canon iR5055/iR5065 PCL6 driver , he also has a Canon iR C5185-H1 PCL6 driver and a HP Universal Printing PCL 6 (v5.1) driver.

[ReMark]

I can select either printer I have installed. One is a Canon PIXMA iP3500 and the other is a HP Designjet 500+. The Canon is normally the default printer.

[DANIEL]

any thoughts on what might be causing this issue? or any thoughts on what to do to rectify his issue?

[ReMark]

There was no magic. Both the printer and the plotter were installed via the Add a Printer option under Printers and Faxes. Put in the pertinent information and point the wizard at the location for the driver and that was basically it.

[DANIEL]

hmmmm, i wonder if its a driver issue, but even if so you'd think it would at least show the printer in AutoCAD

[ReMark]

How can it show the printer if the driver wasn't loaded?

[SBP-TAPER]

REMARK,

Hope you are still there. How did you get 2004 Acad to work on Windows 7 64 bit ?

 

SBP-TAPER

[ReMark]

I'll qualify that statement. Express Tools for 2004 won't work because it used 16-bit code but plain old AutoCAD does work. Maybe it helps that I'm running Win7 Ultimate and XP mode?