printed line widths

[Anonymous]

I just bought a new printer and am finding the printed line widths to be very fine. It appears that width "1" is printing 1 pixel wide, "3" as 3, etc. On my old printer, "3" printed farily heavy, like a .5 mm lead.

I presume the old behaviour was correct. If so, I would assume this is a printer driver problem, but would like your confirmation first.

The printer is Brother HL-1450, and I downloaded the lasted driver off their website.

-- Peri

[Anonymous]

What version of sketch are you using?

If it is V5 or above (can't remember much about earlier versions) this is a
common "issue" that relates to the way in which sketch deals with lines.
From what I understand of the situation, for the preset line widths sketch
generates a fixed width line of x pixels, when this is printed it is printed
as being x pixels wide, which is okay for lower resolution printers, most
printers these days are 600dpi or better. One dot at 72 dpi (screen
resolution) may appear quite wide, but at 600 dpi it is much smaller.

Most people find that the easiest way around this is to use polylines, on
which you can specify what output width you want, circles etc will have to
be converted to poly's as well which is a bit annoying!


"perih" wrote in message
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I just bought a new printer and am finding the printed line widths to be
very fine. It appears that width "1" is printing 1 pixel wide, "3" as 3,
etc. On my old printer, "3" printed farily heavy, like a .5 mm lead.
I presume the old behaviour was correct. If so, I would assume this is a
printer driver problem, but would like your confirmation first.
The printer is Brother HL-1450, and I downloaded the lasted driver off their
website.
-- Peri

[Anonymous]

I see, so this behavior really is "by design". (I have version 8).

I'll have to read up about polylines and figure out how to set line widths. As for the future, any possibility of adding a simple attribute to actually map "1" to some dimensioned thickness?

-- Peri