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Many thanks to all who helped so promptly - Nigel Tidswell, Leon Gersekowski, Ian Hull, Cinda Graubard, Andrew Hare - we are up and printing transparent vector fills. The key to success was to use an older driver as most suggested. However, we still couldn't use the HP750C model that should have suited our plotter - we had to select the HP755CM (C3198B) model. The successful driver version was 4.60 for NT. Toggling on & off "Internal Handling for Transparent Vector Fills..." made no difference to solving the problem with the latest driver 4.61 (and with the successful older driver, plotting was fine with it on or off). Summary of Responses: 1. Using the latest driver for HP designjets Under Win2k is going to leave you bitter and resentful. ...I ended up installing an earlier print driver. You have to make sure that the driver files are completely deleted before installing an earlier version. Windows, in it's infinite wisdom, will not overwrite driver files with earlier versions (even tho' it's what you asked for), but will let you think you did!(:/) To remove unwanted drivers, go Start, Settings, Printers and then go File, Server Properties. On the Drivers tab, highlight the HP Designjet driver(s) and click Remove. A reboot is probably a good thing to do, and then you can install an earlier driver. If you didn't do this before, remove all Designjet drivers, reinstall the 4.60 version and see what happens. 2. We had a similar problem to you, getting our HP1055CM running with MI 6.5 on Win2000, to print transparent layers. ...... Basically you should load this older driver that is contained in the attached e-mail, and forget about anything to do with Win2000. Unfortunately, because you have already attempted a Win 2000 driver load, your registry is now "trained" to only accept a Win2000 version driver. You will firstly need to locate a computer guru in your organisation to find and clean and reset your registry so that ONLY driver ver. HP DJ 4.4 loads. Our resident printer guru spent nearly 2 whole days, finding and resetting my registry files so that ver. 4.4 driver would load. Before that was done, no matter how many attempts were made at loading ver. 4.4 driver, that system always retained the later driver version. Everything between our plotter and MI 6.5 works like a charm now, even though we are running an old fashioned printer driver. 3. We had a similar problem with our Win 2k machines (MI 5.5) to a HP 750c plotter. The problem turned out to be the Win 2K/XP printer drivers. The solution (for us anyway) was to use an OLD printer driver (v4.60) downloaded from HP on the 750C driver page (filename PL132EN.EXE). The driver is listed for NT4 but works fine for Win 2K/XP. 4. You have to use vector pattern fills. Many geological one available from ExaMin's Display Tools (they are in Australia, otherwise I would tell you we resell it.) 30 day timed out free eval available to try them. Let me know if you need any help with finding the eval, or using the fills. We use them all the time. They work great, you can actually modify them with a bit of pluck; importantly you choose the density and size of the fill "pattern" "vector-stamp" for the desired scale of output. Also includes standard patterns used by AGSO. We almost NEVER use the MapInfo fills when we need (reliable) output. Rod's Note: Exa-Min are 2 blocks away and we have their vector fill mbx and can recommend it - but we still have plenty of uses for the MI transparent fills. 5. Try this - In preferences, output preferences Tick both the internal handing options in printing box and window export box I had a similar problem where the transparent vector fills. Thanks again Rod Dawney ----------------------------------------------------------------- AUSMEC - Australasian Mineral Exploration Consultants PO Box 183, Brisbane Albert St BC, Queensland, 4002 AUSTRALIA Phone: 61 7 3210 0249 Fax: 61 7 3229 4554 Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Web: http://www.ausmec.com.au ----------------------------------------------------------------- Original Query: We have just "upgraded???" to Win2000, and are having the vector hatch printing problems similar to those reported previously here. No matter what we try based on the responses to those reports, some (not all) of the hatch patterned regions will print solid black on our HP750C (on local LPT1). We have tried: * downloading latest Win2000 driver from HP * changing most settings and combinations thereof of in "Preferences\Output Settings" * reloading - restarting * printer on & off Anyone have some ideas to help? --------------------------------------------------------------------- List hosting provided by Directions Magazine | www.directionsmag.com | To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Message number: 3521