Printing in grayscale shows picture borders which are not to be displayed

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Atle

I have a ppt presentation, with some graphics in it. When I print it
greyscale, the border around (at least some of ) the pictures show up, even
if I set them to not show.
I've tried to set them to white. But they still show (in black).

The problem goes away when setting the printing to color, even if printing
to a b/w printer.

Can I fix this, or is it not possible?

Thanks!

Atle
 
Hi,

Maybe this will help:

Control how your presentation prints in B/W
http://www.rdpslides.com/pptfaq/FAQ00522.htm

Else, this from Steve Rindsberg to a previous poster:

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Some applications antialias the edges of graphics when they export them.
This
can lead to e.g. a white background image that has a thin border of one or
two
pixels that are just slightly off-white.

Usually its' not visible to the eye, you need to use a paint program's
eyedropper tool to sample the pixels and get a numerical readout of the
values
to catch the difference.

But the printer driver will sometimes emphasize these small differences; it
may
assume that white means white, put down no dots; but off-white must be
deliberate, so put down the slightest visible dot pattern possible. That
can
really emphasize these small diffs.

One possible fix is to open the image in an editor and if you do see the
slight
diff. at the border, crop a few pixels off.

Or try cropping it slightly in PPT.
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Hello,

This is by design. When printing, PowerPoint detects whether or not the
selected printer is color capable or not and, if not, prints the slides in
grayscale mode with automatically applies certain rules as to how things
will print differently than if they were printed to a color printer.

PowerPoint provides an interface for controlling (on a per-object basis)
how things will print. Check out the help topics:

* Adjust presentation colors to print in black and white
* About printing in black and white

If you (or anyone else reading this message) have suggestions for how
PowerPoint might improve how it prints color content to black & white
printers, don't forget to send your feedback (in YOUR OWN WORDS, please) to
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