Plotter switching pens continuously

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

 

This might work.

Go to the "File Menu", select "Plotter Manager", then select the Roland DXY
1100) driver. Now select tab that says "Device and document settings", and
then select the "+" next to "Physical Pen Configuration". Now select "Pen
Configuration", and then move down to the drop down arrow below, and select
"Adds full motion optimization", then select "OK".