jitter style will not print in black and white

[Anonymous]

I was recently upgraded to 2017 full Autocad from LT 2013 (yeah!) and have been discovering new tools and techniques. Remembering the Squiggle tool that was never available in LT I was looking for a way to add a hand-drawn effect to a floorplan. A co-worker told me about creating styles using the Visual Styles Palette.

Perfect, just what I needed. The only problem is when I try to print the drawing I cannot get it print black and white. It doesn't matter which plot style is selected the preview always shows the layer colors. Doesn't matter if it is a standard plot style or one we have created. This only happens in the layout where the new style was applied.

I can print to a black and white printer and the lineweights appear correct but I need to print these as a pdf so will have to open them in another program to change all the lines to black.

[pendean]

Change your layer /object colors to 7 and try it again: use of STB plot style tables eliminate the need to rely on layer or object colors for lineweights too.

[Anonymous]

Nope, all of our plot styles are set to color 7.

[pendean]

But you are using CTBs: I'm suggesting a change to STB OR changing all on screen colors to 7 (not the blues and reds and greens I see in your screenshot).
Read all about both http://www.caddmanager.com/CMB/2009/08/cad-standards-ctb-vs-stb/

The visual style you are using ignores plot style table settings based on color: it might ignore STB too but you'll have to test it.

EDIT: I should add that if this is an actual business need (for client show-and-tell), ask to be upgraded to AutoCAD Architecture (not just plain AutoCAD). it has the best working option for this style of presentation drawing called NAPKIN SKETCH https://knowledge.autodesk.com/support/autocad-architecture/learn-explore/caas/CloudHelp/cloudhelp/2...

[Anonymous]

I am again testing out use of Visual Styles. As to your comment about switching form ctb to stb I honestly don't know what you are referencing. Our office used a fixed format of preset templates so it is not within my control to enforce a major change even if I understood the differences. 

The question still remains  - why or what is happening within the Visual Styles command that it completely overrides the pen settings and previews and prints using the layer colors? Is this a bug that I should report? Or is it a prerequisite of using Visual Styles?

[GrantsPirate]

In the Visual Styles Manager for sketchy, change Occluded Edges to yes for Show, and Color, White.

[ScottRoth]

I have same issues, only in sketchy does the plot come out in color. I tried changing the occluded edges to show "yes" and color "white", line type "solid" and still previews in color. Is there a solution for this? The company ctb is preset for converting color lines to correct line weights in black/white - it works for other visual styles (2D wireframe is the default) but as soon I change it to sketchy - it doesn't work.