Cannot print Shaded fonts

[Buddy Greenshield]

I'm pretty sure I've done this hundreds of times, maybe in older versions
of Excel, but when I pick a greyscale shade for font colors, the printer
prints and preview shows it as black 100%.
Windows XP pro, Excel 2002, HP laserjet 4
Can't seem to find any setting that is preventing this.

Thanks, Buddy G

 

[David McRitchie]

Hi Buddy,
applies per worksheet:
File, Page Setup, Sheets, turn off Print Black & White

Also look at disability option

Q320531 -- OFF: Changes to Fill Color and Fill Pattern Are Not Displayed,
Incorrect/missing colors may occur with use of High Contrast under Display tab
of Accessibility Options. Colors don't show on monitor.
http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;320531

Click Start, click Control Panel, and then click Accessibility Options.
Click the Display tab, and then click to clear the Use High Contrast check box.
Click OK to close the Accessibility Options dialog box.

 

[Buddy Greenshield]

Thanks for responding.
Print Black & White is not checked, never was.
Accessability high contrast options not enabled, never was.

Colors and shading show up properly when woking in the spreadsheet, only
print preview and printing are effected.

Any other ideas?

Buddy

Hi Buddy,
applies per worksheet:
File, Page Setup, Sheets, turn off Print Black & White

Also look at disability option

Q320531 -- OFF: Changes to Fill Color and Fill Pattern Are Not Displayed,
Incorrect/missing colors may occur with use of High Contrast under Display tab
of Accessibility Options. Colors don't show on monitor.
http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;320531

Click Start, click Control Panel, and then click Accessibility Options.
Click the Display tab, and then click to clear the Use High Contrast check box.
Click OK to close the Accessibility Options dialog box.
---
HTH,
David McRitchie, Microsoft MVP - Excel [site changed Nov. 2001]
My Excel Pages: http://www.mvps.org/dmcritchie/excel/excel.htm
Search Page: http://www.mvps.org/dmcritchie/excel/search.htm

"Buddy Greenshield" <gcs-at-bendcable-dot-com> wrote in message news:[email protected]...

I'm pretty sure I've done this hundreds of times, maybe in older versions
of Excel, but when I pick a greyscale shade for font colors, the printer
prints and preview shows it as black 100%.
Windows XP pro, Excel 2002, HP laserjet 4
Can't seem to find any setting that is preventing this.

Thanks, Buddy G

 

[Buddy Greenshield]

Another thing,
Background shading works fine, it's only fonts that refuse to print in
shades of grey.

Buddy G.

Thanks for responding.
Print Black & White is not checked, never was.
Accessability high contrast options not enabled, never was.

Colors and shading show up properly when woking in the spreadsheet, only
print preview and printing are effected.

Any other ideas?

Buddy

Hi Buddy,
applies per worksheet:
File, Page Setup, Sheets, turn off Print Black & White

Also look at disability option

Q320531 -- OFF: Changes to Fill Color and Fill Pattern Are Not Displayed,
Incorrect/missing colors may occur with use of High Contrast under

Display

tab
of Accessibility Options. Colors don't show on monitor.
http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;320531

Click Start, click Control Panel, and then click Accessibility Options.
Click the Display tab, and then click to clear the Use High Contrast check box.
Click OK to close the Accessibility Options dialog box.
---
HTH,
David McRitchie, Microsoft MVP - Excel [site changed Nov. 2001]
My Excel Pages: http://www.mvps.org/dmcritchie/excel/excel.htm
Search Page: http://www.mvps.org/dmcritchie/excel/search.htm

"Buddy Greenshield" <gcs-at-bendcable-dot-com> wrote in message news:[email protected]...

I'm pretty sure I've done this hundreds of times, maybe in older versions
of Excel, but when I pick a greyscale shade for font colors, the printer
prints and preview shows it as black 100%.
Windows XP pro, Excel 2002, HP laserjet 4
Can't seem to find any setting that is preventing this.

Thanks, Buddy G

 

[David McRitchie]

I don't have a LaserJet 4, but I installed it. I have Windows 2000
like you. Print preview shows gray and not color for background
shading. I tried the fonts and all the grey fonts look black.

Everything looks correct with my regular color printer so I doubt that
it is settings in Excel. The printer manufacturers are responsible
for printer drivers and they control what gets printer, what you see
in printer preview and I think what you see on screen.

It is up the the printer manufacturers to supply print drivers so you
might try going to the HP site and downloading the latest driver.

I expect it won't change so you may have to pick a different printer
to preview. I preview everything in color, but since I have only
black ink, the printer/software prints black.
---
HTH,
David McRitchie, Microsoft MVP - Excel [site changed Nov. 2001]
My Excel Pages: http://www.mvps.org/dmcritchie/excel/excel.htm
Search Page: http://www.mvps.org/dmcritchie/excel/search.htm

Thanks for responding.
Print Black & White is not checked, never was.
Accessability high contrast options not enabled, never was.

Colors and shading show up properly when woking in the spreadsheet, only
print preview and printing are effected.

Any other ideas?

Buddy

Hi Buddy,
applies per worksheet:
File, Page Setup, Sheets, turn off Print Black & White

Also look at disability option

Q320531 -- OFF: Changes to Fill Color and Fill Pattern Are Not Displayed,
Incorrect/missing colors may occur with use of High Contrast under Display tab
of Accessibility Options. Colors don't show on monitor.
http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;320531

Click Start, click Control Panel, and then click Accessibility Options.
Click the Display tab, and then click to clear the Use High Contrast check box.
Click OK to close the Accessibility Options dialog box.
---
HTH,
David McRitchie, Microsoft MVP - Excel [site changed Nov. 2001]
My Excel Pages: http://www.mvps.org/dmcritchie/excel/excel.htm
Search Page: http://www.mvps.org/dmcritchie/excel/search.htm

"Buddy Greenshield" <gcs-at-bendcable-dot-com> wrote in message news:[email protected]...

I'm pretty sure I've done this hundreds of times, maybe in older versions
of Excel, but when I pick a greyscale shade for font colors, the printer
prints and preview shows it as black 100%.
Windows XP pro, Excel 2002, HP laserjet 4
Can't seem to find any setting that is preventing this.

Thanks, Buddy G