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Printing problem

Printing problem

Printing problem

(OP)
This might be an easy problem to fix, I don't know.  I've been working on a drawing for the past couple of days.  Normally when I print it out everything is fine, until this morning.  When I print the dimensions and the title block lines are greyed.  Even on new documents I can't get the lines and dimensions to appear normally.  Am I missing something, or is there a trick to it?  If I change the line wheight it just prints big grey lines.

RE: Printing problem

Click the "Page Setup" button in the print menu.  You may have "Color/Greyscale" selected when you want "Black and White".

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RE: Printing problem

(OP)
Thanks That seemed to do it.  I had it set on automatic, I geuss it was just picking the wrong one every now and then or something.  Now, is there a way to reset the line wheight values?  As I said I changed then, but I don't know what they were originally set at.  I click on print and then line wheight.

RE: Printing problem

(OP)
I know this is an old topic, but I figured my new question is similar.

Is there a way to print a drawing in color but have the dimensions print as dark black, instead of light grey?

RE: Printing problem

sloth4z ... As far as I know, only by changing the dimension colour to black.
Tools > Options > System options > Colors > Dimensions, Non Imported (Driven) > Edit select color

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RE: Printing problem

(OP)
Thanks a lot!! That was exactly what I wanted.  Which seems to be rare in most forums.

I use 2001+ and the option was "Imported Annotations (Driven)" also the option for the drawing outline is "Inactive Entities"

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