topic Re: Black&white turned to gray in Documentation

Black&white turned to gray

Anonymous — Fri, 07 Feb 2025 14:19:20 GMT

I encountered a problem with printing both with "plot" from plotmaker and "print" from 2D:
AC decides that all the solid fills should be printed as shades of gray and the contours of some Objects. I suppose it prints them as "grayscale", though I definitely select "black&white". It can be seen in plotmaker too.

In the picture everything should be black!

Anyone else with this problem?

Re: Black&white turned to gray

Anonymous — Mon, 11 Dec 2006 21:18:50 GMT

Personally I'm glad the old "print as black" has gone, so you don't get black solids where you've used white background fills (as in your trees, Kliment)

If you set your pens up so selected colours print black you should be able to get around this (i think)

Re: Black&white turned to gray

Anonymous — Wed, 13 Dec 2006 06:32:42 GMT

I have tried to make the problematic pens black - no change!
All the trees are the same pen.
I seems the items, reprecented in gray are only Ac objects - windows, chairs, lamps, section makers, etc. Lines and objects with the same pen are shown differently!

Re: Black&white turned to gray

Anonymous — Thu, 04 Jan 2007 19:09:16 GMT

kliment wrote:
Anyone else with this problem?

Yup, we're having it also

we've just been slowly rolling over to ArchiCAD 10 from 8.1 since this past summer, and we're finally starting new projects completely in 10 and we've run into a handful of printing problems that make us want to stick with AC8.1

Because of the solid fills (or 100%) turning a dark shade of gray in plot files, we first blamed out plotter for the light output

I'd try printing with PDF files, but every pdf file that we publish with ArchiCAD 10 crashes out plotter.