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M-Color Settings that Can Affect Printing Performance There are a few settings in M-Color Preview that can affect printing performance. The defaults are appropriate for most cases. If printing takes a long time, you may want to try changing these settings to see if they could improve the printing performance with your drawing types. You will find the settings in the Expert Settings dialog box in M-Color Preview (on the Edit menu). The settings that may affect printing performance are: - Ignore overlapping translucency within a single layer - Optimize gradient fills with bitmaps Ignore overlapping translucency within a single layer This setting defines how M-Color treats overlapping translucents fills on a single AutoCAD layer. When this setting is on, all translucent fills on a single AutoCAD layer are treated as one fill. Overlapping areas do not cause darkening. This is the default setting and enables much faster screen display. Printing speed is also usually better. In some cases, you may want to turn this option off. If you want overlapping areas on a single layer to cause darkening, turn this option off. This will usually slow down screen display and printing. However, in some cases, printing may be faster when this option is off. Optimize gradient fills with bitmaps When this option is on, M-Color uses bitmaps to draw gradient fills during printing. Usually, this results in better printing performance especially when the Process in Computer mode of the printer driver is used. If you have lots of gradient fills in your drawing and printing is slow, you should try turning this option off to see if it makes printing faster with your printer technology. Back Back to top |
