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Printing with white?

Printing with white?

Printing with white?

(OP)
I'm starting out fresh with Wildfire 2 at a new company.  Its been several years since I've messed with the config, but its coming back to me.  I just can't remember how to adjust colors when printing.  I want to use white, but have it print black.  I used a black background, and print to a black/white laser printer...

Any help is greatly appreciated...

RE: Printing with white?

try using a pen table like the one below
it is stored in

C:\Ptc\proeWildfire2\text\plot_config



pen 1 thickness .0125 cm; half_tone_color
pen 2 thickness .0350 cm; drawing_color attention_color
pen 3 thickness .0125 cm; dimmed_color datum_color
pen 4 thickness .0125 cm; edge_highlite_color
pen 5 thickness .0125 cm; letter_color
pen 6 thickness .0125 cm; highlite_color
pen 7 thickness .0450 cm; magenta_color
pen 8 thickness .0050 cm; section_color

!ptc system color table
!=================================================

!attention_color              dark green
!letter_color                 yellow
!highlight_color              dark red
!drawing_color                white
!background_color             black
!half_tone_color              gray
!magenta_color                purple(IGESMODELS)            
!edge_highlite_color          green
!dimmed_color dark            gray
!section_color                blue
!presel_highlight_color*      cyan
!datum_color                  brown
!quilt_color                  magenta
!selected_color*              red
!secondary_selected_color*    orange
!preview_geom_color*          yellow
!secondary_preview_color*     pale yellow

RE: Printing with white?

(OP)
Thanks, but I have since got it to work using a similar table saved as [table.pnt] in my startup directory and linked in the config.pro file.  However, now I can't seem to get the line thickness to change when I change the thickness in my table.  Only when I change the line weight in the config.pro.  I thought the table.pnt would override that.  Does the print table file only set printing colors, NOT line weights?

BTW, I'm using W2.  Do I need to save it as a different name or linked in a different area of the config.pro?  I have it linked now under the pen_table_file line of config.pro.

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