Grey Scale Reports

[HamotIntern]

I apologize if this has been addressed in another thread, I didn’t see one that does. It’s kind of an age-old problem and was kind of surprised not to see a thread on it…designing a report to print in black and white/grey scale. I have a line chart that has six elements on it. The report will be printed off on a regular laser printer. I am trying to make it as readable as possible. I cannot seem to make the lines discernable enough to make a legend viable. I tried using Point Labels with the elements name on it, but that clutters the chart too much since it shows up at every data point. What I would love to do is make a label for each line that would only appear once on each line. OR if you have any ideas on how to maximize readability another way, that would work too.

 

[ookete]

What I usually do is activate markers... the little shapes at each data point. That way one series has little triangles and another has little squares, etc. This works great for my applications, but if you are showing a graph with an extreme datapoint count this would not work.