Plotting/Printing Problems

Hello,

Does anyone use here use older plotters/printers? I keep Draftsight up to date and most recently have encountered circles and curves being plotted as asymmetric octagons with some curves just reduced to a straight line between end points. I use an HPGL emulator package to run a monochrome A2 size printer of some age now (Pacific Data Protracer II) and has all worked well. I normally use R2013 .dwg formats for my drawings and trials of other formats throw up the same problems. It can be alleviated but not consistently by converting the whole drawing to "polylines" before attempting to plot although smaller circles still plot as irregular octagons. The same drawings print OK from Epson printers and HP Deskjets. Any help would be appreciated.

 

regards

Ian