Printing color layouts

Module(s): Layout

Requirements for printing out layouts in color:

• A color-capable printer/large format printer and the Color option (if available) is switched on at the printer.
• A driver that supports color output (for example, the Allplan vector driver HPCOL_DESIGNJET).
• With Windows drivers: color output is selected in the printer properties (Print Layouts tool - Printer tab - Settings area - Settings - for example, Paper/quality tab).
  

  

• The Print in color option is selected in the More settings area of the pen and color assignments (Print Layouts tool - Print profile tab - Pen and color assignments option - Set button).

On-screen color and colors in the printout

Whether the colors on screen match those in the printout depends on the settings for pen and color assignments (Print Layouts tool - Print profile tab - Pen and color assignments option - Set button). Each color of Allplan's 15 pens or of the 256 basic colors can be assigned a printout color there.
If Pen and color assignments are not selected or the existing colors are not redefined, the colors on screen match those in the printout.

The color assignments that are actually used depend on whether the Color stands for pen option is selected or not:

Color stands for pen means that the color used to display an element on screen is associated with (and thus dependent on) the pen thickness of the element in question. Elements drawn with a certain pen (or pen thickness) are always presented on-screen with the same color, regardless of the colors assigned to the individual elements. You can specify which color represents which pen in the Options (Standard toolbar) on the Desktop environment - Pen colors page. You can switch the Color stands for pen option on and off in Show/Hide on the Standard toolbar.

• When Color stands for pen is selected: the element colors are based on the colors that are assigned to Allplan's pens 1 to 15 in the Options - Desktop environment - Pen colors
• When Color stands for pen is not selected: the element colors are based on the colors that were assigned to the elements when they were created or modified.

Printing fills and bitmap areas in color

Whether color printers print fills and bitmap areas in color or in shades of gray depends on the setting of the Fills and bitmap areas, grayscale option on the Print profile tab in the Print Layouts tool.

Printing lines, text, dimension text in color

You can specify whether lines (and other 2D design entities such as text or dimension text) print in color, in shades of gray or in black.
Select the Print Layouts tool, open the Print profile tab, select the Print and color assignments check box and click the Set button. In the More settings area, you can switch between Print in color, Line colors using shades of gray and Line colors in black. If you have not selected the Fills and bitmap areas, grayscale option in conjunction with the Line colors, grayscale or Line colors, black option, lines are displayed in shades of gray or black and white and fills are displayed in color. When set to Print in color, all elements (lines and fills) are displayed in color.