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Printing with white?

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closer9

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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...
 
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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
 
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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