Black & White Printing

[moe]

I am currently using VW Arch 2008 and am using class colors (red, blue, green, etc.) However, I would like to print the sheets in B&W but not in gray scale. I know of only two options to get around this. One is to, in the print box, set the color as gray scale but, again, I do not want gray scale. The other option is to go into the doc. pref. and set the drawing to black and white only, print the sheet, then go back to turn that option off, which becomes a hassle having to do it all day long. Does anyone know of a way to set file to view in color but to print in B&W only? I want to say this used to be an option in an older version of Vectorworks, but I am not 100% sure.

Thanks in advance for any help

[Pat Stanford]

1. There is a toggle available on VectorDepot (and somehwere here in the archives) to toggle the B/W setting on and off which would save the trip to the preferences.

2. If you are doing sheet layers (or can make saved views before printing), you can use the Batch Print which has teh option for each "print" in the left hand column to print in color or B/W.

3. Check your printer driver and see if there is a B/W option there.

Pat

[moe]

Pat,

Thanks for the suggestions. I have tried the Batch Print BW option but then the problem becomes that colored fills print out blank/white. I will look into VectorDepot, but I was hoping that there was something in VW that would fix this.

Thanks

[billtheia]

If you're using viewports on sheet layers, you can set the viewport to Black & White Only in the Advanced Prefs dialog. This allows you to see design layers in color and print in black & white.