Printing hints

Select Black and White to save colored ink.

If you use a color printer, you know how fast those color cartridges run out of ink.

Fix:

To save on colored ink, use the Options/Black and White setting until the final printout.

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Printout too small

A common report is that printouts don't "fill the paper". This condition is an indication that there is a drawing element somewhere beyond the area you consider to be the plan.

Commonly, it is an erasure, or a tiny dot that is hard to see, but that nevertheless, convinces Home Pro that it needs to be printed.

The actual plan has to be made smaller In order to fit this unwanted drawing element on the paper.

Fix:

We need to get rid of the unwanted drawing element.

1. Use the Group Selection tool to select only the main drawing

2. Paste that into a new plan.

This should leave the unwanted drawing element behind and solve the problem.

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Printout lines hard to see

Printers with a very high resolution, may draw very thin lines. This is because that by default, each line is one pixel wide. If you want to print at much over 300 DPI, you should adjust the Print Line Boldness.

Fix:

Go to the Printing tab on the Preferences form and select a degree of Print Line Boldness.

It's best to select an odd number, so the line will be centered. i.e.. 3x or 5x will draw lines three or five pixels in width.

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Entire printout hard to see

Some Printers have a problem printing colors. You can check the "Black and White" setting on the Options menu to see if that is the case with your printer.

Fix:

If it prints normally in black and white you need to change the colors to black. Select groups of elements and click the Color button on the Alter Plan tool bar.

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Printed text too big or too small

You probably don't want the text in your plans to be scaled the same as all the other drawing elements. A small plan at a large scale would have overpoweringly large text, and a large plan at a small scale may have unreadable text.

Fix:

Go to the Printing tab on the Preferences form and select a Text Size Factor that provides the printed text size you prefer.