topic Re: Solid Fills Printing&Plotting Grayscale in Documentation

Solid Fills Printing&Plotting Grayscale

Anonymous — Fri, 07 Feb 2025 14:33:32 GMT

Even with "All Colors to Black" checked, I cannot get a solid fill to print or plot black unless the pen color IS black. Lines work flawlessly. No matter what I do the fill, however, it comes out a shade of gray based on whatever pen color I give it. (i.e yellow prints lighter than blue, but never solid black) I tried opening the default AC10 template & got the same results. Our office uses a black drawing window background so merely stting the pen color to black would be far less than ideal. I must be missing something.... Please help...
G5/OSX/AC10 w/
1055cm plotter or 5100dtn printer

Re: Solid Fills Printing&Plotting Grayscale

Thomas Holm — Fri, 20 Oct 2006 17:40:06 GMT

Do you have the latest build (987)? Check for updates in the Help menu.

Re: Solid Fills Printing&Plotting Grayscale

Anonymous — Fri, 20 Oct 2006 17:47:25 GMT

Yes, I do.

Re: Solid Fills Printing&Plotting Grayscale

Anonymous — Fri, 20 Oct 2006 21:20:12 GMT

I read a couple of posts today in trying to see if anyone else had this problem, & noticed a couple of mentions to a new way Graphisoft has made the fills. Is this the reason I can't have printed solid black fills without having black pens? Are we really the only office out there running a black drawing background? We'll never go to the craziness of GS's default layer structure, but I s'pose if there's no solution to this issue we may have to change our window background color. Not cool. Any suggestions??

Re: Solid Fills Printing&Plotting Grayscale

Thomas Holm — Fri, 20 Oct 2006 21:36:22 GMT

I used black background when i worked in Microstation, but I've found that WYSIWYG is actually better. So now it's white, in Archicad. Lets me use color or grayscale freely without mixing it up with colors symbolizing lineweights, and without having to use Print all as black (which rules out the very useful grayscale).
Still, it might be a bug. But HP print drivers are know to be buggy too...
http://www.macfixit.com/article.php?story=20061019102457174