Printing Shaded views on Hp designjet

[Alex Page]

We have a couple of problems printing shaded views on our HP 1050C..
1. Quality is very low.. jagged lines etc.
2. Colours are very dark compared to our other printers....

I remember seeing a thread 6 months ago (?)...but Ive lost it...anyone have a work around for this?
Cheers
Alex

[Alex Page]

Sorry..just found the hundreds of topics/ threads!!!
Thanks

[Alex Page]

Actually...none of them answered my questions!!!
HELP!

[Mr Spot]

Are you printing as vector or raster?

[beegee]

Actually...none of them answered my questions!!!
HELP!
Did you check this post (http://forums.augi.com/showthread.php?t=1075&highlight=printer), particularly the comments by Mr. Zoog near the end. ( Don't know if that will help since it looks like it was referred to support without an answer posted back. )

[Alex Page]

Are you printing as vector or raster?
Thought I had tried all combinations, but must have missed 'raster' somehow...yes, this has fixed the 'jagged lines', but colours still coming out way to dark.
Does anyone think this may have something to do with ICC profiles (I hope not...Ive dealt with them before!)

[Alex Page]

Right....sorted it out
1. using raster/ vector printing for shaded views within Revit has no effect on quality (that I can see anyway)
2. For jagged lines...make sure in the designlet printer settings (under advanced) that FAST RASTER PRINTING is NOT ticked...that sorts out that!
3. to lighten dark colours I changed the designlet printer settings (under options) to use 'manual color' then (under colour control) 'no colour correction' and used the 'lightness' button to lighten them. Note this changes all colour printing to this printer, so I created a new printer called 'hp 1050c Revit' for the specific workaround of this problem. Works great, anyone found a better/ alternate way?