Printing on b/w printer

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Oliver Lingk

Hello again NG!
I tried to print out my presentation on a black&white printer (HP LJ 4).
When I print out a colored (eg green) box it's correctly printed in a grey
style. But when I print out 1-dimensional objects (like lines, arrows etc.)
they are always printed in black and not some kind of grey. This also
happens when I attach a thickness of 20pt or more to them.

Can anybody tell me, why those objects are printed in black and not in grey
as the 2-dimensional objects are?

Thanx in advance
Oliver

- Using PP2002 on XP
 
Oliver,

Below is a table directly from the HELP file on printing:

Object
Grayscale
Pure Black and White

Text
Black
Black

Text shadows
Grayscale
Hidden

Embossing
Grayscale
Hidden

Fills
Grayscale
White

Frame
Black
Black

Pattern fills
Grayscale
White

Lines
Black
Black

Object shadows
Grayscale
Black

Bitmaps
Grayscale
Grayscale

Clip art
Grayscale
Grayscale

Slide backgrounds
White
White

Charts
Grayscale
Grayscale



You will see that lines are printed in BLACK (always). Just one of those
things!
 
Hmm... hoped it had something todo with my settings... :(

Anyway: Thank you for your quick response!
 
Comment:

For everybody who is interested in this problem:
I found a solution to solve this problem, at least for my printer. Although
I have a b&w printer I chose "print style-> color" and got nice greyscales!
 
I tried to print out my presentation on a black&white printer (HP LJ 4).
When I print out a colored (eg green) box it's correctly printed in a grey
style. But when I print out 1-dimensional objects (like lines, arrows etc.)
they are always printed in black and not some kind of grey. This also
happens when I attach a thickness of 20pt or more to them.

Can anybody tell me, why those objects are printed in black and not in grey
as the 2-dimensional objects are?
Click to expand...

I haven't had a chance to test this, but I think what's happening is this:

When it prints in pure b/w and possibly grayscale, PowerPoint makes all text
and all outlines black. PowerPoint sees lines and arrows as shapes that have
only an outline, no fill, so it seems reasonable that it would make them black.

If you like, you can choose "Color" in the print dialog box. Then PowerPoint
will send shapes to the printer unmodified and let the printer make the color
to b/w conversion.

Or you can control how objects print in b/w:

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