JulianJSSA Posted July 18, 2012 Share Posted July 18, 2012 I have just installed AutoCAD 2012 and a HP Deskjet 510 plotter. The plotter does not print out the colours in true colour i.e. when the line on the CAD file should print in red, it is actually printing out in orange. There are also problems with other colours not printing out as they should. Does anybody know how to fix this? I have printed PDF documents to the plotter and using this route the colours will print as they should so the problem is not plotter related. I suspect its something to do with the AutoCAD Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SLW210 Posted July 18, 2012 Share Posted July 18, 2012 Are they wrong in print preview? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JulianJSSA Posted July 18, 2012 Author Share Posted July 18, 2012 No. It looks good in print preview Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JulianJSSA Posted July 18, 2012 Author Share Posted July 18, 2012 They look good in print preview but I have just printed to PDF file and then plotted the PDF and the red is still coming out orange. Any ideas??? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SLW210 Posted July 18, 2012 Share Posted July 18, 2012 Can you post some of the drawing or PDF? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rkent Posted July 18, 2012 Share Posted July 18, 2012 I went through something similar when I got a new HP plotter. The fix was to edit the .pc3 file, go into custom properties, Color tab, under Color Management pick Printer managed colors rather than Application managed colors. I hope that is it for you. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JulianJSSA Posted July 18, 2012 Author Share Posted July 18, 2012 Sorry but I am unable to do this as I'm not sure what to do to insert the drawing into this reply (not really that much of a teckie and this is the first time I have used any kinda forum Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SLW210 Posted July 18, 2012 Share Posted July 18, 2012 At bottom right of reply box select "Go Advanced" the scroll down and select "Manage Attachments" browse to file and select then upload. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JulianJSSA Posted July 18, 2012 Author Share Posted July 18, 2012 Hi I hope that this has worked and you can see the PDF Sample of red plot.pdf Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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