In some cases, transparency images can whack out a printer's memory. I know
that sounds way too technical, but I'm a pro - I can use these words in
sentence.
When a printer prints a flat page (no transparency images) each dot is sent
to the printer, it arranges them and then sends those dots to the print
mechanism. Simple. But when a transparent (or semi-transparent) image is
used, some printers will send the flat page, plus an overlay transparent
page (one for each transparent image on the page). Each transparent layer
is sent and piled on top of the previous ones as the printer tries to
arrange them and then determine what (how much of which image shows through)
to send to the print mechanism.
If you have a slide with a lot of transparent images, the printer may run
out of memory to hold all this data and throw up it's virtual hands in
disgust (report an error, to those non-geeks out there).
The first thing I would try is to make sure you are using the most
up-to-date printer driver for your printer. Don't think that because you
just pulled it out of the box last week that the driver is current, it
rarely is. Go to the web-site of that printer's manufacturer and download
the latest. Try printing your handouts again. It will probably fail again,
but you should always try this first.
If this is still happening, then one fairly easy solution is to buy a
bigger, better printer. Seeing as how most of us do not have that sort of
money laying around, it might be easier to export all the slides as flat
images (File => Save As => change type to JPG) then create a new photo album
and bring them back in (now as flat images). This new presentation you
created just for printing should print without a hitch.
--
Bill Dilworth
A proud member of the Microsoft PPT MVP Team
Users helping fellow users.
http://billdilworth.mvps.org
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