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rohit_rajan15-Moonstone
15-Moonstone
September 17, 2019
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PTC Creo drawing pdf prints out faint

  • September 17, 2019
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Why does my print which is printed from a PTC Creo drawing pdf prints very faint?

If i take out direct print out of the drawing without making a pdf everything prints fine.

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MartinHanak24-Ruby III
24-Ruby III
September 17, 2019
@rohit_rajan wrote:

Why does my print which is printed from a PTC Creo drawing pdf prints very faint?

If i take out direct print out of the drawing without making a pdf everything prints fine.

Hi,

please check whether config.pro file contains following option

pdf_use_pentable YES

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MartinHanak24-Ruby III
24-Ruby III
September 17, 2019

Also it is necessary to upload an example of the problem.

kdirth
kdirth21-Topaz I
21-Topaz I
September 17, 2019

Are you printing are large drawing at a small size.  An E size drawing makes an E size PDF.  When an E size PDF is printed on an A size paper, all of the lines will be much thinner.

 

Another possibility is the conversion of color to gray scale with the PDF while the direct print is printed in black and white.

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rohit_rajan15-MoonstoneAuthor
15-Moonstone
September 18, 2019

I would just confirm if its a large size sheet being printing in a smaller size paper.

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Patriot_177622-Sapphire II
22-Sapphire II
October 1, 2019

Your thread should really be in the "detailing" forum, but, it may be a pentable issue like I was having.  Go here, download the file and save it on your hard drive and make the config.pro changes (especially the path to the pentable file), and print some PDF's.  Please let me know if this works for you, feedback is appreciated!

https://community.ptc.com/t5/Detailing-MBD-MBE/The-pentable-issue-rears-it-s-ugly-head-again/m-p/628197#M28169

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