Thin lines printed thick

[Joel]

Hi, hope someone can help!

I have several electronic schematic drawings I have created using Visio
Professional 2003. When printing some drawings I get a line with the weight
01 being printed with what appears to be a much greater weight, this is
repeated every time I print the drawing, I have even deleted the line and
re-drawn it, I have also made sure that there is only one line there…. What’s
going on…???


Joel

 

[Paul Herber]

Hi, hope someone can help!

I have several electronic schematic drawings I have created using Visio
Professional 2003. When printing some drawings I get a line with the weight
01 being printed with what appears to be a much greater weight, this is
repeated every time I print the drawing, I have even deleted the line and
re-drawn it, I have also made sure that there is only one line there…. What’s
going on…???

What happens if you export the drawing as a graphics file e.g. GIF.
Does the same thing happen?
Try swapping the paper size to landscape/portrait. Does that make a
difference. If so then suspect printer drivers.

Also, check that the lines don't have shadow.

 

[Joel]

What happens if you export the drawing as a graphics file e.g. GIF.
Does the same thing happen?
Try swapping the paper size to landscape/portrait. Does that make a
difference. If so then suspect printer drivers.

Also, check that the lines don't have shadow.

Hi Paul,

Many thanks for the reply, I tried your suggestion of exporting to GIF (also
tried AutoCAD dwg) and it does appear to be the printer rather than Visio or
any line format. Unfortunately it looks like I’m going to have to live with
it as we have no control over the printer drivers as these are automatically
deployed to by our IT department (I did check and they are the latest and
greatest). Oh, well, never mind.

Cheers

Joel

 

[Joel]

What happens if you export the drawing as a graphics file e.g. GIF.
Does the same thing happen?
Try swapping the paper size to landscape/portrait. Does that make a
difference. If so then suspect printer drivers.

Also, check that the lines don't have shadow.

 

[Paul Herber]

Hi Paul,

Many thanks for the reply, I tried your suggestion of exporting to GIF (also
tried AutoCAD dwg) and it does appear to be the printer rather than Visio or
any line format. Unfortunately it looks like I’m going to have to live with
it as we have no control over the printer drivers as these are automatically
deployed to by our IT department (I did check and they are the latest and
greatest). Oh, well, never mind.

Marvellous. At least that means that you have the option of saving to
GIF and printing that instead.