topic Re: Line weight not printing properly in Documentation

Line weight not printing properly

mukster — Thu, 06 Feb 2025 10:31:42 GMT

I'm trying to print, and the light line weights on the screen and in preview keep printing as really dark. I know there's a setting somewhere that's not set right. No matter what I do, I can't get the line weights to print properly. I have true line weight set in the View menu.

Re: Line weight not printing properly

Barry Kelly — Fri, 30 Oct 2020 01:18:37 GMT

True line weight is an 'On-Screen Option' so only affects what you see on screen - not what you print.
Also it only affects the line thickness and not the darkness (colour).

Depending on how you are printing (directly from the Archicad screen, from a layout page or publishing a publisher set) you should have 'Print' options.

Let us know how you are printing if you need more help.

Barry.

Re: Line weight not printing properly

mukster — Fri, 30 Oct 2020 15:06:16 GMT

Trying to print from this screen. Do not know what it is called, there was a little window that would pop up to say what it is, but that is disabled for some reason. The flagstone is light in the view map, but I print from the layout book, and the flagstone prints dark. I need it to print lighter. No matter what I do, it prints dark. I am not an Archicad expert, just someone who uses it.

Re: Line weight not printing properly

Laszlo Nagy — Fri, 30 Oct 2020 20:31:11 GMT

Mukster,

Please do not use ALL CAPS in your posts, it looks like you are yelling at others.
I have modified your post to normal Sentence case.

Re: Line weight not printing properly

Barry Kelly — Mon, 02 Nov 2020 01:32:38 GMT

The image you show is a layout page.
The question now is are you going to the FILE menu and printing or are you using a Publisher set to publish (print) the page.

I am guessing you are using File menu > print.
In which case you will see a print dialogue window - make sure the 'Black & White' option is turned off.
If it is then open the 'Page Setup' dialogue and then go into your 'Printer Properties' to see how your printer is set up (colour, greyscale, black and white).
If everything is set to 'colour' then you should get what you see.
If you have an option for 'greyscale' (you may not depending on your printer), you will get tones of grey.
If anything is set to 'black & white' then even the grey lines will print as black (as far as I know).

Barry.

Re: Line weight not printing properly

A_ Smith — Mon, 02 Nov 2020 07:57:05 GMT

you need to add a checkmark at the printing window

Re: Line weight not printing properly

mukster — Tue, 17 Nov 2020 17:54:41 GMT

Figured it out - I have to turn off the black and white button at the print window. And thanks for the input, but I don't speak/read/write Russian

Re: Line weight not printing properly

Barry Kelly — Wed, 18 Nov 2020 01:22:53 GMT

mukster wrote:
Figured it out - I have to turn off the black and white button at the print window. And thanks for the input, but I don't speak/read/write Russian

No need to read Russian.
I wrote it in English...

Barry wrote:
In which case you will see a print dialogue window - make sure the 'Black & White' option is turned off.

Still it might have seemed like Russian as I tend to over-explain.

The (Russian) image A.Smith showed is to print all lines as hair line - not exactly what you want to do.

Glad you found the solution.

Barry.