easiest approach for greyscale print

[Anonymous]

There is probably an easy way to do this..... My layouts are done in one of the standard pen sets with a few modifications, 03 Architectural. Everything works fine when the plans are published and printed in color. (They are printed in A3 size at an outside copy shop). Now I would like to switch the prints from color to black and white (greyscale), and of course the prints don't look that good.

I started redoing the layouts in the greyscale pen set, but this isn't that easy to change back and forth. Also have experimented with creating new fills with different % fills.

What might be the easiest approach with min. mods to produce a nice bw set?

[Anonymous]

in the print layout just check the black and white tab

[Link]

And if you are using Publisher, simply duplicate your publishing set and then alter this setting. Keep in mind that if all your layouts are in one folder, you only need to alter the setting of that folder and it will affect all the drawings contained within it. This will save you changing them all individually.

Cheers,
Link.

[Anonymous]

Yes, I tried that first. The problem with this is that some of the colors, eg. light blue, print as black so the resultant output doesn't look good.

[Link]

There is usually a color/greyscale setting within the Properties of the actual printer you are using. Set it there for your new publisher set, but greyscale is greyscale - you'll get the same results as if you changed the drawing's settings. A light blue, when changed to greyscale looks bad, that's just a fact.

The next best way to handle colors AFAIK is by adjusting the drawings settings themselves. It's ugly but you could duplicate the whole layout and select all the drawings at once and change the drawing's setting to use Greyscale colors instead of Defined by Penset. But I'm sure you'll find you'll get the same result as the former method.

Greyscale is greyscale.

Cheers,
Link.

[Richard Morrison]

A pretty reliable way is to print a PDF set using grayscale. Then you can check the results and print from THAT

[Anonymous]

Thanks very much for the info, I wanted to make sure somehow I wasn't doing unnecessary work. Since my greyscale prints don't need to look great, only readable, I am going through my layouts and trying to come up with a common color scheme that looks good in color and is at least readable in greyscale and testing it with the greyscale setting on the printer. Thanks again!

[Anonymous]

Link wrote:
Greyscale is greyscale.

Cheers,
Link.

But, is Grayscale Greyscale?
This is a gra/ey area for me...