AutoCAD R14 printing on Canon BJC-5100

[Tony Chau]

I'm having a problem printing drawings on my printer. Basically what Canon
Tech. support tells me is that the printer / driver converts the colours I
sent to be plotted to 'grey' scale instead of complete lines. They say that
they do not have any work arounds for this problem. I've tried 6 driver
printer drivers with different release dates but have had no luck. The
funny thing though is with the other printers I have used, a BJ-330 (really
old) and BJC-4100 (old) have worked right with the right drivers. Are there
any drivers out there that is available that'll work right for me? Is there
anybody out there with a similar problem that's got a work-around for this?

[Shawn F.]

Set your pens all to pen 7 and it will plot all black lines for yah, which
is usually what you want anyway, unless you do electrical or something funky
like that

"Tony Chau" <jch...@home.com> wrote in message
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[jo...@fel.u-net.com]

On Thu, 27 Apr 2000 22:45:24 GMT, "Tony Chau" <jch...@home.com> wrote:

>I'm having a problem printing drawings on my printer. Basically what Canon
>Tech. support tells me is that the printer / driver converts the colours I
>sent to be plotted to 'grey' scale instead of complete lines. They say that
>they do not have any work arounds for this problem. I've tried 6 driver
>printer drivers with different release dates but have had no luck. The
>funny thing though is with the other printers I have used, a BJ-330 (really
>old) and BJC-4100 (old) have worked right with the right drivers. Are there
>any drivers out there that is available that'll work right for me? Is there
>anybody out there with a similar problem that's got a work-around for this?
>
>

Set all colours to use Pen7. The BJC5100 works just fine.
BTW, the BJ330 uses ONLY black ink so it wouldn't give you this
problem, would it? :-)

John

[Randall W. Wink]

Tony Chau wrote:
>
> I'm having a problem printing drawings on my printer. Basically what Canon
> Tech. support tells me is that the printer / driver converts the colours I
> sent to be plotted to 'grey' scale instead of complete lines. They say that
> they do not have any work arounds for this problem. I've tried 6 driver
> printer drivers with different release dates but have had no luck. The
> funny thing though is with the other printers I have used, a BJ-330 (really
> old) and BJC-4100 (old) have worked right with the right drivers. Are there
> any drivers out there that is available that'll work right for me? Is there
> anybody out there with a similar problem that's got a work-around for this?

First item is "Do you have a color cartridge installed?"
If so, and you want color, go to start/settings/printers/bjc5100 and set the
printer to color. If not, then set the printer to monochrome.
Close out of the settings and then open Acad, open the drawing and select
print. Open the pin assignment box and set the pin color to pin 7 if no color
is desired.

R. Wink