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Call HP support and they will walk you through the process of setting up a
special configuration that will allow your printer to just use black ink
only. This eliminates the need to mess with the pen settings.
You will give this setup a different name (mine is called HP100-24x36black)
and it will show up on the list of available plotters when you hit the plot
button in autocad. You will still be able to use the standard plot for your
printer if you ever want to print in color.
Carolyn
What purpose does [rea] serve in this sequence, as it happens anyway after
the layer command & again during plotting.
Also - this system only works if everything is set to colour bylayer.
FWIW I'd have thought that between [plot] & [profit] should be [layerp] so
that your drawing is still usable onscreen.
Matthew
I have a Calcomp Techjet, which has the same issue. It's an orphan
printer, but we found a paid tech support company which advised us to
configure AutoCAD to use the printer under a different name. He
directed me to use a plotter model which had similar features, but was
B/W only. (Sorry, I don't recall the model, we have switched to
another plotter)
Note that the trick of setting up a pen configuration called
"Monochrome" didn't help us. But it might help you, just edit the pen
configuration, and highlight all the pens (highlight the first one,
then scroll to the bottom of the list, and select the last one while
holding down shift... everything in the middle should now be
highlighted). Then just change that pen to use color #7(Black/White)
If the model number or pen color trick I just described doesn't
work, you might just let the color inks run out, leaving only the
black ink. Then just use that cartridge when you want b/w so you
don't waste any more color cartridges.
Joe
Gray is acomplished by mixing equal amounts of all the colors
so, grayscale will use a lot of "color" ink
try to set your plotter to "monochrome.ctb" in printer setup and it should
start to use black ink only
Well, with the drawing I happened to have open while testing this (so
I didn't skip a step), it did not regenerate. You're correct that it
doesn't need it when plotting anyways, but it does give a level of
reassurance that the program has done what you want it to do & it only
puts off that retirement by a few more seconds. Time for that first
pint of beer to warm up to a more drinkable temperature.
As for this working only with objects set to bylayer, well, of course
that's how it is, because I am an intolerant bastard who believes
that's the way everything has to be. Every object must have it's
colors, linetypes, etc set to bylayer. Anyone who does otherwise
should be punished by being ground up for fertilizer. ;-)
Kelvin
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