The pain of printing charts

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Smudgerrr

Morning
So I have a rather large document in word which has lots of lovely colourful
charts inserted into it. All looks good, print preview looks fine.
So, i press print and the charts on several pages of the print have now
dissapeared!
So I try printing in black and white and they all print out fine.
I print out one page at a time in colour and it prints out fine.

Ive searched the internet and standard replies are that "drawing objects"
and "background images" should be checked in the tools menu, which they are.

Does anyone have any ideas? I am at a loss on this. My only thought is
that MS word has problems processing lots of graphics in a document and
randomly prints blanks as soon as it reaches its limit. Marvelous.
That said, I converted the document to pdf file and the same charts are
missing when printed!

Anyway, any help gratefully appreciated.

Thanks
 
You might try (for this document only) disabling background printing (Tools
| Options | Print). This will mean that you won't be able to do anything
else while the document is printing, but if the issue is a spooling one,
that might correct it.

--
Suzanne S. Barnhill
Microsoft MVP (Word)
Words into Type
Fairhope, Alabama USA
http://word.mvps.org
 
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Smudgerrr said:
Morning
So I have a rather large document in word which has lots of
lovely colourful charts inserted into it. All looks good,
print preview looks fine.
So, i press print and the charts on several pages of the
print have now dissapeared!
So I try printing in black and white and they all print out
fine.
I print out one page at a time in colour and it prints out
fine.

Ive searched the internet and standard replies are that
"drawing objects" and "background images" should be checked
in the tools menu, which they are.

Does anyone have any ideas? I am at a loss on this. My
only thought is that MS word has problems processing lots
of graphics in a document and randomly prints blanks as
soon as it reaches its limit. Marvelous.
That said, I converted the document to pdf file and the
same charts are missing when printed!

Anyway, any help gratefully appreciated.

Thanks
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I've had similar problems but not in Office. Thus these are untested
judgements based only of my experience and knwledge. I've never had the
problem in Office.

Are you perhaps changing the printer before you print? What you see onscreen
and in Preview is determined by the printer drivers. So when print, you need
to be using the exact same drivers that were loaded when you looked at them
in Word.
Assuming not, and that you're using the default printer, then the first
thing I'd likely try would be remove and replace the printer drivers or if
there is an update, update them too. Update printer drivers ONLY from the
manufacturer of your printer. Do NOT trust any other source for drivers,
including Microsoft, which sometimes offers printere drivers.
PDF having the same issues as the Word printed file would be to be
expected as it takes them from the same set of printer drivers when it
creates the PDF.

Assuming you have no luck with the above:
- How many printers are installed?
- Are the charts all created by the same application? Any relation to
what's not printing?
- Are they linked or inserted charts?
- Are the missing charts all the same chart format but different from the
ones that do print?

Those answers might help someone who's seen the issue help you further.
Print Preview uses the same drivers as used for the printer at print time,
so it's strange that preview and printer output don't match.

Have you tried the Office Repair feature? Usually avaliable under Help.
Requires the original install disks. Pretty sure 2k3 still has it.

HTH,

Twayne`
 
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