How to print true color

[mel]

Hi everyone; great forum. hope to learn a lot. I hope this isn't bad form but i posted

a question yesterday in the beginners area forum and I was wondering if this might be a better place for the question. I am trying to find out how to print a true color

solid hatch for a rendered site plan. I can change the color in layer properties but

when I go to print, it shows and prints a darker more saturated color almost like an autocad color. When I select the transparency button it seems to be closer to the real color. I'm a little lost about this. I have searched the forum and searched online but no luck. Not a big deal, just wondering what I'm missing or doing wrong. Thanks.Mike

[CyberAngel]

The color that appears on your hard copy depends on the original color, the color/style table, the printer, and other factors I can't recall offhand. An object that prints the way you want it to on one printer may print differently on another printer. Sorry, you may have to experiment to get the result you want. This is one of the hardest things to get right in CAD work.

[rkent]

Hi, I saw your post yesterday but I thought I saw that you were using pre-2000 release of autocad. Since you are using 2011 you will want to try using an STB file instead of CTB as this will let you plot from the colorbooks colors. The obvious limitation (already mentioned) will be how robust your plotter is for plotting colors.

[Tiger]

Hi Mel and welcome to the forum.

 

In general you should post your question in the most appropriate forum and only once. It messes it up when there are multiple threads about the same things. I have deleted your prevous thread (since you got some respons here) - hope you get the help you need

[tzframpton]

rkent is right. Plotting True Color from AutoCAD requires you to use STB plot styles, not CTB.

[mel]

Thanks for the replies. To Cyberangle; thanks, the colors weren't even close, so I thought there was something wrong. To rkent; thanks, that must be it. I used a acad.cbt file to plot, why the color came close with the transparency option selected I don't know, maybe dumb luck. On to learning about STB files. Thanks. And Thanks Tiger for the welcome (and cleaning up the mess). mike

[mel]

Thanks StykFacE, I think that's what was wrong. Do I need to convert the drawing to an STB file or can I "load" the STB file into the drawing?

[tzframpton]

type CONVERTPSTYLES at the command line. You'll have to make your adjustments in the STB file to match. Have fun, STB is a whole new world.