Colored Pattern Lines.

[Terry Murphy]

How to you get a printer to print red lines instead of black?

[Tom Orchanian]

Terry: Assuming you have a color printer, change the color of the line to red in whatever application you created the pattern in. Alternatively, many color printers allow one or two color printing of b & w docs. These changes can normally be made under "properties" in the print dialog.

[Terry Murphy]

What about a pattern I didn't make?

[ChuckD]

You could try Rapid Resizer. You can print out the final pattern in any color you like, but I do use red. Great program, use it a lot.

[Don in Brooklin On]

What about a pattern I didn't make?

I use a lot of Steve Goods patterns that come as PDF's

If I want to change colour I use GIMP (free program)

Open the PDF and find the page I want and import.

Use select tool to select area I want. Ie big square on tools page

Select colors and then colorize. Play with the saturation and hue to get the color you want and then print.

I hope you can see the results here.

gimp.jpg

[Wood Dog]

Another option Terry is to scan the pattern to your computer. Put it someplace where you can find it again.
Here's what I do when I want to print a color to some patterns.
Open file in Irfanview, click File, click Print, select the printer I want to use, click printer setup, click properties, click effects, click box monochrome effect, select color by moving slide, click OK, click OK again, click Print.
I realize you may not have the same setup as I do, but if you play around with your parameters you should be able to find you can print your patterns in the color you want. Good luck.
.....and as I mentioned in my earlier post, a highlighter can be helpful if you don't want to use the printer.

[Trackman]

Hay Chuck if I can step in on this thread. I have the rapid resizer program also. How do you just get the line to change color an not the whole pattern?

I have had a lot of trouble with the program but they have been very good at showing me how to get around the trouble an make the program work. Thanks

[ChuckD]

Hay Chuck if I can step in on this thread. I have the rapid resizer program also. How do you just get the line to change color an not the whole pattern? Thanks

I am afraid I don't understand the question. The lines of the pattern are printed in red, not the whole page and it is the choice you make, I think, on the last page. I will double check and see.

Update: I checked and the last page gives you the options of several colors.

[Terry Murphy]

I did it!
I just changed the color to magenta in the preferences, and it worked.

Sometimes I just can't see the forest through the trees!