printing colors to black

[bjenk8100]

Hey,

 

A few questions. First, my problem is the drawings that i am trying to print have many different colors in them and when i try to plot them to black they come out very light (prob in some kind of grey scale or what not). My objective is to have them print normal black.

 

Also, some of these drawings have multiple page setups. One of the setups is pdf full size or pdf half size. These pdfs do not display the colors and when i print them it prints perfectly. However, not all the drawings have this setup. WHenever i convert the dwg to pdf the colors remain. Anyone know how to covert the pdf without the colors being displayed. I looked into turning layers off but thats not working because they assign objects and colors with layers so if you turn it off the object goes.

 

Any other additional help to solve this matter is much appreciated.

 

tnx

[ReMark]

It might be a function of the printer you are using. If there is a Properties button click on it. Look for an Imaging tab. Then see if there is something re: Graphics and a Settings button. You want to check off the two boxes that read Print Text as black and Print Graphics as black.

[bjenk8100]

i figured out a way of doing through autocad

 

i made a new ctg file in stylesmanager and clicked all the colors and selected them to print as black. lol

[ReMark]

More than one way to skin the proverbial cat. Fine by me.

[bjenk8100]

ha only problem is some areas cant be black or everything fills

[danellis]

Look at the PDF page setups. These will specify a *.ctb.

 

Choose this CTB for your plots and you should get prints that look the way they're supposed to: i.e. hatched areas will look hatched rather than filled.

 

AutoCAD uses a system by which "colours" equate to "pens," the ctb file specifies which "pen" each colour represents: red may be a very thin line while blue a very thick line. Whoever drew the drawings you've been sent would've none this correlation and drawn accordingly. If you plot using the right CTB your drawing will look the way the draughtsman intended.

 

dJE