Sight Survey color printing

Does your printer have more than two cartridges (black/color)?

Could it be that AutoCad defaulted to black printing for those colors?

OK - the post just above does raise a question. Are you using stand alone or the version that runs inside autocad.

But a possibility. Any chances you have the same lines in 2 different layers that are on at the same time and it is trying to print them twice and end up with the wrong colors?

If you are running inside autocad the autocad settings could be the problem.

I have the Brother MFC 6490CW printer with 4 cartridges.

I don't use autocad. The software is titled "Sight Survey" (now owned by Carlson).

"Sight Survey" is a stand alone program and doesn't run inside Autocad.

There are two different versions. We use stand alone, but tried out the autocad version a while back. It may have never gotten past a beta version.

I have never used this software, BUT when you type the command "PLOT", a plot dialog box should come up. Make sure that it is fully "expanded". (Sometimes, in AutiCad, the box is like minimized and you have to click on the arrow at the bottom right corner of the box to expand it.) Look for the Plot Style Table setting box. There should be some sort of tool icon that lets you go in and set color and/or line widths. If you are not sure how to set the color, look at the colors that are printing correctly and see how they are set.

I would think that is is some layer being tagged to print black that is in the background and turned on.
When I installed my cad there were over 240 layers and lines would plot to several of them depending upon where the description codes.
It took me days to correct that and simplify my cad drawings.
Look thru the various layers and see what is and what is not turned on.
Having several different colors on the same line work will cause it to print black.
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