Printing a few different colors on b&w plots, Power InRoads V8i

This is everything I've made changes to. From the looks of it, if I do this it will apply to the everything but the references. I unfortunately can't post a picture due to certain system sensitivities. But In the Modify Pen Table dialog I've list all colors but the three that I need in color, then Gone to the second tab and checked colors and set it to black.

Thank you all. We've abandoned this for this submittal due to time constraint and the amount of sheets that would need to be overrode. We will likely use level overrides.

Our primary pen table/print driver combination is set so that the "regular" colors (0-255) print black (or grey). If we need to show color, we use either true color or the color book. It's not completely foolproof, but it's effective enough for what we do.
I also like to set our "no plot" levels to true color as well, so if they accidentally end up plotting it's very easy to identify them.

I love seeing colors on my screen - it makes it so much easier for me to identify items on the fly. I've worked with firms who wanted everything "black and white" and it was always a nightmare to look at the screen and "see" what anything was. Just as awkward for me as working in AutoCAD when people still plot by color, because then every single thing is red, yellow or green...

can you post copy of your pentable...and a dummy  copy of your dgn so we can take a look and see whats going on

please list what you want it to do by colour no.s too....

We often have to work with others in teams and I find it  more user friendly to create custom copies of the pdf.pltcfg  with obvious meaning ClientNameColourPDF.pltfg  and have the custom pentable pathed inside the printername.pltcfg and that  is what drives the special settings for what is printed and how ... much more intuitive for whole group.

Your cad manager or cad lead should help you set these things up.. I  much prefer not to use overrides to make everything black as its hard to look at on screen and hard for others to know when to use and when not to use as overrides is too easy to turn on off, and if your using nesting  and sheet models overrides after the fact can be very problematic...

can you post copy of your pentable...and a dummy  copy of your dgn so we can take a look and see whats going on

please list what you want it to do by colour no.s too....

We often have to work with others in teams and I find it  more user friendly to create custom copies of the pdf.pltcfg  with obvious meaning ClientNameColourPDF.pltfg  and have the custom pentable pathed inside the printername.pltcfg and that  is what drives the special settings for what is printed and how ... much more intuitive for whole group.

Your cad manager or cad lead should help you set these things up.. I  much prefer not to use overrides to make everything black as its hard to look at on screen and hard for others to know when to use and when not to use as overrides is too easy to turn on off, and if your using nesting  and sheet models overrides after the fact can be very problematic...