Thin lines printed thick   

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

date: Wed, 6 Aug 2008 03:33:04 -0700   author:   Joel

Re: Thin lines printed thick   

On Wed, 6 Aug 2008 03:33:04 -0700, Joel
 wrote:

>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.


-- 
Regards, Paul Herber, Sandrila Ltd. 
Electrical for Visio          http://www.electrical.sandrila.co.uk/

date: Wed, 06 Aug 2008 16:54:29 +0100   author:   Paul Herber

Re: Thin lines printed thick   

"Paul Herber" wrote:

> On Wed, 6 Aug 2008 03:33:04 -0700, Joel
>  wrote:
> 
> >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.
> 
> 
> -- 
> Regards, Paul Herber, Sandrila Ltd. 
> Electrical for Visio          http://www.electrical.sandrila.co.uk/
> 

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

date: Thu, 7 Aug 2008 02:09:01 -0700   author:   Joel

Re: Thin lines printed thick   

"Paul Herber" wrote:

> On Wed, 6 Aug 2008 03:33:04 -0700, Joel
>  wrote:
> 
> >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.
> 
> 
> -- 
> Regards, Paul Herber, Sandrila Ltd. 
> Electrical for Visio          http://www.electrical.sandrila.co.uk/
>

date: Thu, 7 Aug 2008 02:10:13 -0700   author:   Joel

Re: Thin lines printed thick   

On Thu, 7 Aug 2008 02:09:01 -0700, Joel
 wrote:

>
>
>"Paul Herber" wrote:
>
>> On Wed, 6 Aug 2008 03:33:04 -0700, Joel
>>  wrote:
>> 
>> >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.
>> 
>> 
>> -- 
>> Regards, Paul Herber, Sandrila Ltd. 
>> Electrical for Visio          http://www.electrical.sandrila.co.uk/
>> 
>
>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.


-- 
Regards, Paul Herber, Sandrila Ltd. 
http://www.electronics-packages.sandrila.co.uk/

date: Thu, 07 Aug 2008 12:10:56 +0100   author:   Paul Herber