Printing issues

[Anonymous]

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

[S.Faris]

Check This Article

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

[Anonymous]

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

[Anonymous]

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

[S.Faris]

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 😉

[S.Faris]

Attach the file if possible

[Anonymous]

here a pict of the screen. Thanks

[pendean]

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?

[Anonymous]

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

[S.Faris]

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.

[Anonymous]

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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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?

[Anonymous]

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

Thank you so much

[Anonymous]

ok will try it right now

[S.Faris]

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

[Anonymous]

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

[Anonymous]

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

[S.Faris]

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

[user181 · Accepted solution]

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

[S.Faris · Accepted solution]

I failed to Notice that 🙂 Great work man.

[Anonymous · Accepted solution]

Thank you so much, ITS WORKING!!!