Expert: Bob - 3/30/2005

Question
I have AutoCad 2000 AND AN HP DESIGNJET 650C. A COMPUTER GUY CAME TO OUR OFFICE TO SET UP ANOTHER COMPUTER ON OUR NETWORK. SOMETHING HAPPENED AND NOW WHEN I GO TO PRINT ON MY COMPUTER, I NO LONGER HAVE TO ARCHITECTURAL SHEET SIZES TO SELECT FROM.  I KNOW I CAN GO TO THE CUSTOM PROPERTIES OF MY PLOTTER AND SELECT MORE SIZES AND CHECK THE ARCHITECTURAL OPTION. I MUST DO THIS ON ALL DRAWINGS I HAVE SET UP IN THE PAST, NOW i MUST RESET ALL PAGE SET UPS TO LET ME SELECT ARCH D SHEET SIZE. I TRIED TO SET THIS OPTION THROUGH THE PLOTTER MANAGER BUT IT DOES NOT GIVE ME THE MORE SIZES OPTION. ANY SUGGESTIONS?

Answer
Sorry, it is late, and maybe that is an IT question, or at least a "what do I do -- my IT guy messed up my AutoCAD?" question.(so it is not really my field)
Paper sizes can be filtered in Custom Properties.I have never set them in Plotter Manager.
My best guess is that they changed the name of the plotter, or the path, and you should delete it and reconfigure it from scratch -- much easier than batting around. This was ignorant on the person's part, and someone should nave not allowed it, if it took place, because it louses up plotting through old setups.
I hope you know you can import a page setup from one dwg to another, rather than starting from scratch again.
I hope that helps -- but it makes me NUTS to see an office big enough to afford a plotter using 6 yr old software. 2006 is SO much quicker to use.
Bob