Problems with fills - printed results

[Anonymous]

Okay, a little background.

We have been slowly migrating from ArchiCAD 8.1 to 10, and now we've finally started putting the first of out version 10 projects on paper. Now I know that we've jumped 2 versions, and I'm aware that 9 was a big leap from 8, but I just was wondering if anyone can offer any suggestions to my problem.

Here's the problem.. a good dozen or so of our fills that appeared correctly when printed/plotted in AC8.1 appear 10x as dense in AC10. Gypsum Board, 75%, 50%, 25%, etc. all appear to be solid when plotted at full size (B&W). even if I start a completely new file, and just draw a few things and then print it, those default 10 fills plot as solid black, even with a moderate pen weight applied to the fill.

I'm assuming that going into the fill types and modifying the spacing [point size] would fix this problem.. but doing that for every existing file would be a headache (even if I propagated this with an aat file). Am I missing something.. how does everyone else cope with this?

[Anonymous]

Thanks, but I can already make error-free PDFs directly from publisher. The problem is that I can't print with error free fills.

[schagemann]

hello,

2 years later same problem - we are attempting to print from AC13 & 14 (AUS latest hotfixes applied) to a variety of xerox printers (510, 5440 & 4440) and get very inconsistent /random print reproduction of lineweights, fills and sometimes even linetypes.

similar as described in the following posts we have experienced this for quite some time in varying degrees:
http://archicad-talk.graphisoft.com/viewtopic.php?p=165230

at the moment the only workaround for us seems to be to use adobe reader changing the settings to print as image for printing, which produces more acceptable print quality.

we also had the xerox technicians in and they pointed their fingers at graphisoft.

does anybody know how to solve this problem?

ds.