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Hi new to revitcity! my name is Alex.. you may have already guess my enthic from my user name. I am fairly young (08 graduate). I have begun only experiencing the reality of working with AutoCAD 2008/2009 for 7 months and as of January 2009 the structural firm that i have work at has made a full switch to Revit Structure 2009 and I have already done several small (mezzanine, additions) projects in Revit. I was hopping to get all the help I need here as have ran into some nit-picking issues.

The biggest issue I have for now is that whenever i plot anything with grey is barely seen or invisible on the plot sheet with kip 3000. I have tried to override the visibility graphics by increasing the line weight and change color to darker grey, and also done the same on object style and phase override graphics. This cannot be a plotter issue because the greys are fine on AutoCAD 2009 but rather it only happening on RS2009. Existing structures and halftone/grey AutoCAD dwg link files on revit dont show up on plot even when i change the phases existing color to a darker shade of grey and line weight from 1 to 2-4. Halftone the drawings is completely invisible on plot.  I have already tried differnet plot setting of vector processing and raster processing and no luck there either. so is there any other way of working around this?? or am I doing something wrong?

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To add to the problem.. I get very inconsistent plots with dark grey colors on revit .. sometimes it would show the dark grey color (075-075-075) lines and sometimes it would not.

 The specs of my computer are as follows:

Intel Core 2 Duo E6700 @ 2.66ghz3GB DDR2 RAMSMicrosoft Windows XP Professional (5.1, Build 2600)Nvidia Quadro FX 560 128mbAsus (no clue which mobo.. im thinking p5b deluxe)

The plotter my office is using is kip 3000, if anyone else has this kind of problem please share your experience in this thread.

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Well apparently a member in the chatroom in revit city help solve my issue (thank you mflure), .. it was rather simple solution since the problem was my plotter settings. In RS2009 File>Print>Printer properties, find kip 3000 output format, if the output is set to Kip GL then you need to change this because it doesnt plot greys very well but if you changed it to Kip script this would fix the issue. to go a step futher and make the greys/half tones even more darker you want to change half tone color adjustment in the properties and play around with your contrast until you find what your comfortable with. I hope this help others with kip 3000 plotters.

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