topic Re: Printing/Plotting in Documentation

Printing/Plotting

Stephen Dolbee — Mon, 10 Feb 2025 15:19:35 GMT

I use the 6" siding fill on plans to show wood decks. When I print (on a printer) from Archicad everything is fine. However, when I print from Plotmaker, these fills appear almost like shading. "Plotting" with our plotter from Plotmaker is fine. It is only when I "print" with the printer in Plotmaker. Does anyone know why, and is there a solution?

Thanks,
Steve

Re: Printing/Plotting

Djordje — Fri, 30 Jul 2004 17:38:49 GMT

Stephen wrote:
I use the 6" siding fill on plans to show wood decks. When I print (on a printer) from Archicad everything is fine. However, when I print from Plotmaker, these fills appear almost like shading. "Plotting" with our plotter from Plotmaker is fine. It is only when I "print" with the printer in Plotmaker. Does anyone know why, and is there a solution?

It surely can be provided by your ArchiCAD tech support, if they (and us) knwe which printer, which plotter, and what are the settings in both the drivers and PlotMaker.

Also, how do you print from ArchiCAD? True Weight or not?

And so on ... call the guys ...

Re: Printing/Plotting

Anonymous — Sat, 31 Jul 2004 03:31:22 GMT

It sounds as if Plotmaker is printing with bitmaps and plotting vectors. I never use or display bitmaps anymore, but I think I saw this happen back in the days before HPGL2 & HP-RTL (bitmap plotting).

Re: Printing/Plotting

Stephen Dolbee — Thu, 26 Aug 2004 17:53:45 GMT

Matthew,
You were partially right. I just discovered in Plotmaker display options, "Fill" was set to "all to bitmap". I just needed to change that setting to "keep original settings".

Thanks,
Steve