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Barbara Alfors
Joined: 03 Jun 2004
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 Posted: Thu Jun 03, 2004 2:24 pm Post subject: Printing black & white rather than color or grayscale |
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Has anyone figured out how to print black & white on a color inkjet (HP 1055 CM) or a laserprinter (HP 9000) instead of grayscale?
I've looked in both Panther and Jaguar and the old "Print: Color/Grayscale or Black & White" option is no longer there.
Thanks,
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huc
Joined: 13 Apr 2004
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Location: ::caddpower.com:: (Aurora, CO)
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| Posted: Thu Jun 03, 2004 3:23 pm Post subject: |
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With the drawing open in PowerCADD v6 (6.1.1) try setting this before printing:
choose Layout menu > Drawing Setup > Print tab
then choose Black and White (or Grayscale) instead of Full Color from the pop up list
hope that helps
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Barbara Alfors
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| Posted: Thu Jun 03, 2004 3:35 pm Post subject: |
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Great, that's exactly what I was looking for. (Of course, I expected it to still be with the printer options...)
Does this selection stay with the drawing now? If so, that's a welcome improvement.
Thanks,
Barbara |
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patrickm
Joined: 13 Apr 2004
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Location: santa barbara, ca
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| Posted: Thu Jun 03, 2004 3:39 pm Post subject: |
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The setting stays with the drawing -- which can be good and bad.
I would like to have this as a global option, too, so I don't have to go to drawing setup everytime I open an older drawing (that was created before this option existed and has the default 'full color' option selected). |
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Rob C
Joined: 14 Apr 2004
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Location: Southern Connecticut
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| Posted: Thu Jun 03, 2004 8:07 pm Post subject: Color Sync method of B&W printing |
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I have not tried this myself, but you may want to try it and see what happens:
In the print dialog box of Panter (10.3), take the bottom pop-up menu to "Colorsync" and when there take the "Quartz Filter" pop-up to either "Black and White" or "Grey Tone".
I don't believe this was present in 10.2.X.
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patrickm
Joined: 13 Apr 2004
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Location: santa barbara, ca
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| Posted: Fri Jun 04, 2004 6:10 am Post subject: Re: Color Sync method of B&W printing |
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| Rob C wrote: | ...
In the print dialog box of Panter (10.3), take the bottom pop-up menu to "Colorsync" and when there take the "Quartz Filter" pop-up to either "Black and White" or "Grey Tone".
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Rob |
I have tried this (both under Jaguar and Panther) and it hasn't worked too well: all the dark colors print as black and the light colors don't print. Powercadd's 'black and white' drawing option works much better... and I still wish it was global  |
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Jeffrey Jakucyk
Joined: 15 Apr 2004
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Location: Cincinnati, OH
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| Posted: Mon Jun 07, 2004 10:23 am Post subject: |
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| If you play with customizing a ColorSync filter you can get it to do black & white just fine for all but the very lightest colors. However, any layers you halftone will print solid black, so it's still not useful. The black & white implementation done within PowerCADD is excellent. |
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