Fading when printing!

[swood5053]

Has anyone ever run into a drawing fading in different areas when sending it to print? Thanks for the input!

 

[MiketheEngineer]

Bad printer....
Or ink
or platen or whatever else can go wrong with a printer.

Try printing another type of document - say a Word doc and see what happens. If that works OK - then I don't know

 

[swood5053]

I guess I should have stated that when I export to PDF in AutoCAD it is faded and also when I use the plot feature and I plot it to PDF (because I have the full version of Adobe Acrobat) it is faded. This is not a printer issue but maybe an issue with the program or the file. I will post the file later tonight after I get home and maybe somebody can try and print to see what I am talking about.

 

[rollupswx]

Make sure to set your plot style to Monochrome, other wise colors might be converted to shades of gray.

 

[francesca]

Are you viewing the PDF at 100% zoom? Adobe scales down the vector data so when you view on screen, at less than 100%, it looks thinner/grayer. It isn't when you plot it.

 

[IFRs]

Style Normal will show shades of grey, could look like fading

 

[chicopee]

If the drawing has colored lines than .PDF will show your problem. When I print an ACAD drawing using CutePDF, I turn all lines black in my ACAD format otherwise I'll have the same problem.