Black&white turned to gray

[Anonymous]

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?

[Anonymous]

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)

[Anonymous]

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!

[Anonymous]

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.