sorry, not a graphics guy, I forgot about DPI! What I was mostly doing is setting lineweight to 4, export at 6000, resize to 2200, but at 96 DPI! I just created an image, resized to 2200, but at 300 dpi, and it printed much nicer!
so to print on 8x11 paper, what width (at 300 dpi) should I resize these to?
Sorry for not understanding sooner Dave! I feel pretty dumb, after all these years, not increasing the dpi for printing the shop drawings!