topic Re: Printing issues in AutoCAD Forum

Printing issues

Anonymous — Thu, 21 Feb 2019 20:19:21 GMT

Hello:

We are new to Autocad. Our drawing is light blue in Autocad, when printing in B&W the drawing comes too light impossible to see (see attachment). We already changed the printer settings and no change. What should we do make it visible with normal black lines? we also changed the "shaded view options" to maximum. Our version is LT probably 2019? we just got it a week ago.

Thanks

Re: Printing issues

S.Faris — Thu, 21 Feb 2019 20:25:21 GMT

Check This Article

I believe you are using Acad.ctb or AcadLT.ctb as Plotstyle, Change it to Monochrome

Re: Printing issues

Anonymous — Thu, 21 Feb 2019 20:31:59 GMT

Thanks. we are using the monochrome option and its not working

Re: Printing issues

Anonymous — Thu, 21 Feb 2019 20:34:52 GMT

we are going to post a pic of the screen in a few min

Re: Printing issues

S.Faris — Thu, 21 Feb 2019 20:36:05 GMT

How many colors are you using in the drawing and what all are those?

What is the lineweight of those color in the CTB?

Are you applying Transparency for the Lines?

Which printer are you using?

I know that's a lot of questions 😉

Re: Printing issues

S.Faris — Thu, 21 Feb 2019 20:36:54 GMT

Attach the file if possible

Re: Printing issues

Anonymous — Thu, 21 Feb 2019 20:40:12 GMT

here a pict of the screen. Thanks

Re: Printing issues

pendean — Thu, 21 Feb 2019 20:41:17 GMT

You are just printing your color drawing to a printer driver that has no color, so it is changing everything to a gray.

You either need your printer driver to change to use true monochrome output, or you have to use a plot style table like MONOCHROME.CTB in the AutoCAD PLOT dialog pop-up, or you need change all of your object colors to color7 before plotting.

Need more help?

Re: Printing issues

Anonymous — Thu, 21 Feb 2019 20:43:42 GMT

Only 1 color blue. and no, I havent set anything with the lines thickness. that might be the issue?

here a pic of the drawing

Re: Printing issues

S.Faris — Thu, 21 Feb 2019 20:47:40 GMT

Turn off Plot Transparency from Plot Dialog. Verify if all the colors you are using in the drawing is set to Black and atleast .20mm Lineweight inside the CTB & Turn off Gray scale.

Re: Printing issues

Anonymous — Thu, 21 Feb 2019 20:47:08 GMT

Our printer is B&W. please let me know how do we do this?:

"... or you have to use a plot style table like MONOCHROME.CTB in the AutoCAD PLOT dialog pop-up, or you need change all of your object colors to color7 before plotting....."

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Re: Printing issues

Anonymous — Thu, 21 Feb 2019 20:48:24 GMT

ok will do. I ll let you know if it worked.

Thank you so much

Re: Printing issues

Anonymous — Thu, 21 Feb 2019 20:49:18 GMT

ok will try it right now

Re: Printing issues

S.Faris — Thu, 21 Feb 2019 20:52:31 GMT

can you attach the PDF printed from Autocad? The one you attached is the scanned coppy of the printed document right? Maybe the issue is with the printer and not Autocad

Re: Printing issues

Anonymous — Thu, 21 Feb 2019 20:58:27 GMT

not working, same light colors lines even thought i put like a 2.00 mm width. here a pic of the color screen

Re: Printing issues

Anonymous — Thu, 21 Feb 2019 20:59:26 GMT

the printer is printing perfectly other docs, like word or excel.

Re: Printing issues

S.Faris — Thu, 21 Feb 2019 21:00:08 GMT

If you can post the file, I'm sure we can solve this in 1 Minute 🙂

Re: Printing issues

user181 — Thu, 21 Feb 2019 21:04:36 GMT

In the plot dialog box try checking the plot with plot styles option on the right side under plot options.

Re: Printing issues

S.Faris — Thu, 21 Feb 2019 21:07:51 GMT

I failed to Notice that 🙂 Great work man.

Re: Printing issues

Anonymous — Thu, 21 Feb 2019 21:10:24 GMT

Thank you so much, ITS WORKING!!!