Cutting on a Black line or Other??

[preprius]

interesting answers.  My eyes dont see red text on black backgound. Or the other way around.   Red fuzzes out and I cant read the text.

I like to see green text.  I have only scrolled with is black lines. With this topic I will try my preferred flourecent green or purple.  

Thanks for bringing up this topic. 

 

Remember the movie andromeda strain.  one character got headaches with red on black.   That is not me. 

 

[FrankEV]

1 hour ago, preprius said:

interesting answers.  My eyes dont see red text on black backgound. Or the other way around.   Red fuzzes out and I cant read the text.

I like to see green text.  I have only scrolled with is black lines. With this topic I will try my preferred flourecent green or purple.  

Thanks for bringing up this topic. 

 

Remember the movie andromeda strain.  one character got headaches with red on black.   That is not me. 

 

You may have possibly misunderstood the answers herein.  

Red pattern lines are against a white background, not black..  When possible, if the cut areas are filled in with light grey, it makes it easier to distinquish the area to be removed.  Often this is most important on busy, multi holed, patterns. 

Many patterns that are available in  a photo file format  (JPG or PNG) or PDF's  are provided in Black lines, or in some cases totaly black areas that are to be cut.  A program like Inkscape can be used to convert these black line patterns into scaleable patterns with the linework in red.  

That being said, not evereyone but many of us can see blade against the red ( I use a pinkish red) lines better than black lines.

   

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

[Rockytime]

The red really helps when drilling very small fretwork things. I can tell what has been cut and what is left to drill.

[rjweb]

I used to be able to go to Office Depot and have the pattern changed from black to red, but now they don’t do it. I don’t know if they can’t do it or management made a change, RJ 

[Rockytime]

5 hours ago, rjweb said:

I used to be able to go to Office Depot and have the pattern changed from black to red, but now they don’t do it. I don’t know if they can’t do it or management made a change, RJ 

I have several patterns I need copied in red. I'll go to my,Office Depot and check in the next couple of days. I'll report back. I have 2 very close to me. One does not do it because, I believe, they don't know their equipment. Poor training. 

[amazingkevin]

Steve Good said use gray lines which helps ,I use most any light color but a variation of red works well. I had patterns that were very dark black and I used a 150 watt bulb which dulled it out so I could follow the line.

[Scrappile]

I have settled on light gray filler,,,, black lines... and I think I have figured how to make that on patterns using Inkscape...

[preprius]

On 1/28/2021 at 6:15 PM, FrankEV said:

You may have possibly misunderstood the answers herein.  

Red pattern lines are against a white background, not black..  When possible, if the cut areas are filled in with light grey, it makes it easier to distinquish the area to be removed.  Often this is most important on busy, multi holed, patterns. 

Many patterns that are available in  a photo file format  (JPG or PNG) or PDF's  are provided in Black lines, or in some cases totaly black areas that are to be cut.  A program like Inkscape can be used to convert these black line patterns into scaleable patterns with the linework in red.  

That being said, not evereyone but many of us can see blade against the red ( I use a pinkish red) lines better than black lines.

   

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Since I am a newbie. I have only printed 2 svg files that I created.  I have never downloaded a pattern, I can only relate to what I know. I have printed my own created svg. But only black lines on white paper. No grey fills on red line.  But this topic showed me to try to tweak my svg files to suit my eyes. 

I am playing with inkscape for the first time this weekend. I'm creating a file from my own sketch. Now I will play with colored lines. And filling areas. 

Thank you for enlightening me.

I was relating to my experience with red / black which is only on computer screen text.

If I download a pattern with red lines, I would need to change the red to something else.  

 

[danilou7]

I used to use black lines and then read a post about 2 years ago on the same subject that suggested red lines.  I tried that and it worked pretty well, but my printer doesn't have individual color cartridges so I was using up the color cartridge pretty quick and spending a lot of money for those cartridges.  I use Inkscape for making my patterns and started experimenting with shades of grey and have settled on 30% grey printed on grey paper. That provides enough contrast in color between the blade and the pattern and have used this combination for about 1 1/2 years now.  But as somebody said earlier, it's what works best for you and the only way to determine that is to experiment with different colors, shades and paper. Good luck!