Printing color layouts

Module(s): Plot Layout

Requirements for printing out layouts in color:

• A color-capable printer/plotter at which the Color option (if available) is active.
• A driver that supports color output (for example, the Allplan vector driver HPCOL_DESIGNJET).
• With Windows drivers: Select color output in the plotter's/printer's properties (Plot Layouts - Settings tab - Windows Settings - Properties - Additional Options tab).
  

  

• The Print in color option needs to be enabled in the More settings area (Plot Layouts tool - Settings tab - Pen and color assignments button).

On-screen color and colors in the printout

Whether the colors on screen match those on the printout depends on whether pen and color assignments are enabled or not (Plot Layouts tool - Settings tab - Pen and color assignments). Each color of Allplan's 15 pens or of the 256 basic colors can be assigned a printout color there.
When the Use box beside Pen and color assignments is not checked, 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 enabled 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 active: 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 page.
• When Color stands for pen is not active: the colors that were assigned to the elements when they were created or modified are used for the element colors.

Printing fills and bitmap areas in color

Fills and bitmap areas always print in color on color plotters/printers.

Printing lines, text, dimension text etc. in color

You can specify whether lines (and other 2D design entities such as text or dimension text) appear in color, in shades of gray or in black just prior to printing.
In Plot Layouts, Settings tab, click the Pen and color assignments button. In the More settings area, you can switch between Print in color, Line colors using shades of gray and Line colors in black. When set to Line colors using shades of gray or Line colors in black, lines are displayed using shades of gray or in black/white and fills are displayed in color. When set to Print in color, all elements (lines and fills) are displayed in color.