Printing in Black on HP LaserJet 4200

[willa]

When I print various line types they are printed as shades of grey. Certain shades are too faint.

How do get to print all the lines in black?

[Don]

Willa,

There is a description file that you can edit change pen colors, thickness, etc. If you are using softpens its trying to greyscale it for you. Are you using superprint or the print button? What version do you have?

Don.

[willa]

Sorry so long to reply.
Medusa version 2001i. The "print" item is used on the file menu.
If I start with a blank sheet, i.e. no master. Then the lines print out perfectly, but as soon I load a drawing created on a previous version of Medusa it prints them in shades of grey.

[Don]

Here is an expample. Des files are located in superprint\macro directory
[hr]
-- D:\MEDUSA2003\MASTER_PROJECT\SUPERPRINT\MACRO\SUPER1.DES WINDOWS
-- WINDOWS plotter description file
-- Copyright(C) 1996
--
--
-- For plotter super1
--
--
ech off
ident super1
--
--
-- The following command is effectively just a comment. It is used merely
-- for human and MEDCONFIG reference.
product winplot
--
plotter notused sin
drilog off
--
-- retrieve paper size from driver
--
area auto
--
-- Plot raster backdrops when feasible
--
raster on
--
-- Scale and rotate plot to fit the paper
--
php 0 thick 0.1 col 0 0 0
php 1 thick 0.18 col 0 0 0
php 2 thick 0.25 col 0 0 0
php 3 thick 0.35 col 0 0 0
php 4 thick 0.50 col 0 0 0
php 5 thick 0.70 col 0 0 0
php 6 thick 1.00 col 0 0 0
php 7 thick 1.40 col 0 0 0

dricom "pendef 0 0.1 0 0 0"
dricom "pendef 1 0.18 0 0 0"
dricom "pendef 2 0.25 0 0 0"
dricom "pendef 3 0.35 0 0 0"
dricom "pendef 4 0.5 0 0 0"
dricom "pendef 5 0.7 0 0 0"
dricom "pendef 6 1.0 0 0 0"
dricom "pendef 7 1.4 0 0 0"
--
--
--phpsel best
-- to assign pens explicitly use (see code table for logical pens (shape pen index))
phpsel man

lgp 0/4 php 1
lgp 5/9 php 3
lgp 10/14 php 5

lgp 15 php 1 -- t3
lgp 17 php 3 -- t2
lgp 16 php 5 -- T1

autoscale on
rot auto
--
-- end of description file
dricom "init1"