Hi, my name is Massimo and I would like know from you about a boring problem with my pen plotter (Roland DXY 1100). I have are recently passed to Autocad 2000 coming from Autocad 14, (Win Xp Pro); now it happens that during the print of any drawing pens are very often switched over rather than being used, in turn, one at a time. I'll try to explain better: when I use Autocad 14, the plotter takes a pen, which is associated to a color, and it contemporarily prints all the lines with that color; with Autocad 2000 instead, it almost changes pen continuously, apparently at random; then the drawing is completed, but it obviously takes MUCH more time. The driver that I use is the one downloaded from the Roland web site and is compatible with Win XP. In a italian CAD newsgroup someone suggested me to find the option " order pens" or "optimize pens." I spent a day to look for it : that option does't exist in ACAD 2000 as well as in the plotter driver. Thank you all for your help, folks. Regards.
Massimo Italy