Question about Lines and color and printing

[Signs]

Is there a way to make it so that the color of lines in the drawing does not affect the outcome of the printouts?

 

I'm not sure how to ask it more clearly, so let me explain. My printer only prints in black and white.

I use yellow color for my dimensions, and when I print it out, it will come out as a lighter gray.

It is pretty difficult to see these dimensions, so I had to change the dimension color to white (black in the drawing, white on Model space, you know) to make it appear clearly on the print out.

 

So my question is, can I adjust the program so that it will print out all colors as one color - solid black? I ask this because I do not like having to change all the colors to white just so that they'll print out clearly. The variety of colors helps me a lot.

 

Thanks. Sorry for the wall of text for one small question!

[CadDan]

Try plotting with the monochrome .ctb.

 

Also, don't worry about the wall of text for one question. The more thorough you are with your question, the sooner the answer will be given correctly without the person giving the answer having to ask a question in return.

 

[Denny]

And if after setting monochrome some lines still appear to be light? Then check in the layer properties manager under the lineweight column to see if you have really small widths set. You can select all and change to default lineweight then plot but don't save it. I get this from time to time when receiving files from other CAD users.

[Signs]

It worked! Thanks

[LarsT]

That's a great tip! I wish I had known about it earlier, as it also works for printing to PDF - at least for me. I had done a bunch of drawings for the U.S. Patent Office, and our CEO asked for them to be submitted in PDF. For some of the layers, I used color #250 from indexed colors for black, but when I printed to PDF, the #250 became somewhat gray, and then when printed on paper from the PDF file, it really looked gray, and the patent office rejected the drawings . The only safe black was the one called "white". BTW, I use a light gray background in model space instead of a dark color, and I never use light colors such as yellow for drawing. I used to use dark backgrounds, but for some reason along the way I switched.

[Coosbaylumber]

No matter what I did within or outside of Acad, the linework came out sort of grey looking.

 

Finally got mad, and did the Manual Over-ride at the control panel as mentioned in the Plotter manual. Then got vivid black lines to varying thicknesses mostly. A couple of lines got the shading treatment too. Got what I had been looking for since back when.

 

What? What are you doing? That will foul up everything for everyone!

When all that had been done before was a standard Default setup.

 

 

 

Wm.

[CadDan]

It worked! Thanks

 

No problem. That's what we're here for.