Dark background printable?

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Megan

Our company slides all have a standard dark blue
background. The problem is, when printing these, a ton of
toner gets used up on the printers. So our remedy was to
create two of every slide set: one with the blue bkgrnd
and one as an "overlay," with a white background for
printing. So when we make any revisions to the slides, we
have double the work because we have to remember to edit
the blue and the white set. I have tried like crazy to
figure out a solution for this but am at the end of my
rope! Any suggestions or solutions? Is there any sort of
extension for Styles, or anything like that?
 
Megan,

Are you printing to color or a black and white printer?.

Also how is the "blue" of your standard templates created.

e.g. is it simply a "background" color selected in powerpoint (e.g dark
blue), or is it part of a graphic image/picture, that creates the
background?

Cheers
TAJ Simmons
microsoft powerpoint mvp

awesome - powerpoint backgrounds,
free sample templates, tutorials, hints and tips etc
http://www.powerpointbackgrounds.com
 
Try going to View > Color/Grayscale. Click on a slide and a toolbox will
appear. Under Setting, experiment with the choices. I would try "Light
Grayscale" or "Black with White Fill". It really depends on the content.
What you see is what will print in black and white if you leave the
grayscale setting at the preferred setting.
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Sonia, MS PowerPoint MVP Team
http://www.soniacoleman.com
(Tutorials and Autorun CD Project Creator)
PowerPoint Live! - Featured Speaker
Tucson, AZ; October 12-15, 2003
 
The blue is a combination of graphics, created in PPT

OK, for black and white printers...follow Sonia's instructions.

For color printers, if the background was one image....I was going to
suggest having one image that is OK for on-screen presentations, then
another image that you could just swap out ready for printing (e.g. send "to
back" the darker image, revealing the lighter image).

This would save hours and hours of time editing two presentations (and
avoiding the inevitable mistakes, when someone fails to edit one of the
presentations).

You could also have 2 different templates, and "apply" the "print" template
(which contains the lighter background) when it comes to print time. I'm not
a fan of this method...as applying another template often moves your text
around.

Another option is to alter the color palette (color scheme) at print
time....making sure that your background graphics used only the 1st 8 colors
in the color scheme....for tricks on using this method see
http://www.echosvoice.com/colorschemes.htm


Cheers
TAJ Simmons
microsoft powerpoint mvp

awesome - powerpoint backgrounds,
free sample templates, tutorials, hints and tips etc
http://www.powerpointbackgrounds.com
 
I like the first option (having two different
backgrounds) but the problem is finding a font that looks
ok on both a dark blue AND a white background.
 
I like the first option (having two different
backgrounds) but the problem is finding a font that looks
ok on both a dark blue AND a white background.
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Generally a font that is reasonably wide (e.g. not spindly like a "lite"
font) will work on both backgrounds.

Did you perhaps mean "finding a font color" that looks OK on both dark and
blue?

Cheers
TAJ
 
Well, one option might be to just apply a different color scheme to the
same design template, then. It would depend on how the original slides
are set up, though. At least that would keep you from having to find a
font that looks good on both dark blue and white!

Check the color schemes pages of my site (URL's in signature) for some
ideas on how you could use the color schemes to your advantage. If it
seems it will work, holler back and we'll give you some pointers for
adding color schemes to a design template. (Which version of PPT did you
say you're using?)
 
Yes, I meant font color, not font.
-----Original Message-----

Generally a font that is reasonably wide (e.g. not spindly like a "lite"
font) will work on both backgrounds.

Did you perhaps mean "finding a font color" that looks OK on both dark and
blue?

Cheers
TAJ


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