Autocad printing too light

View Original Translate. English Original X. View Original X. By: Support. Support 0 contributions. Or hatch patterns made up of alternating lines 1 pixel wide could turn into a solid fill. But again for the majority of files a minimum line thickness of 2 or 3 won't hurt. Problem 2 - The lines were created too light. CAD Users typically design on a black background where colors like Yellow for centerlines look great.

Or on a white background on a computer monitor a light gray looks great also. But the reality of printing on a monochrome printer is that these colors just do not work. When converted to a monochrome tiff most software including our AcroPlot Repro will use a dither matrix to calculate which pixels get dropped out.

Most dither matrixes will be at least a 10x10 matrix but to make things simple let's look at just a simple 4x4 matrix. In the matrix each pixel is assigned a percentage black that must be met for that pixel to be printed.

Solution to Problem 2. Again the best solution is to teach your clients or users that light grays and light colors just are not going to print well to a monochrome printer. In AcroPlot Repro you can reduce the Brightness in our interface. The Brightness ignores pure black and pure white but all other colors and shaded of gray are adjusted based on a calculation. If you set the Brightness to it will make the colored lines darker.

It does not increase the thickness but it will result in more pixels being printed. Skip to main content. Support and learning. To translate this article, select a language. View Original Translate. English Original X. View Original X. By: Support. Support 0 contributions. Issue: When plotting to PDF, printing to a physical printer, or publishing from AutoCAD, object lineweights display thicker, thinner, darker, or lighter than displayed in the drawing.

Causes: There are several causes for this behavior, including: Plot lineweights is enabled.