In Excel, colored text is printing in black. Shaded cells are ok?

[kskaug1]

I have colored text in my Excel spreadsheet, however it will not print in
color. The shaded cells print ok and I'm only printing one spreadsheet on
one tab (not a group of worksheets). Even print preview is in black and
white.

 

[Bernard Liengme]

Check these:
1) File | Page Setup; open Sheet tab; look for Print .. Black & White
(middle, left of dialog)
2) File | Print ; open printer properties and see if you have set it to
print in greyscale
best wishes

 

[Tu]

I got the same problem. Text only only print in black color and show in
preview black. Tried your suggestion but it still did not work...

 

[Gord Dibben]

Have you unchecked "Draft Quality" just below "Black and White"?


Gord Dibben MS Excel MVP

 

[kskaug1]

I don't have the option for "Draft Quality". I'm printing to a color printer
(Xerox machine) and the Color box has been checked (print function). If I
convert this document to Adobe, it prints in the correct color, however I
cannot get it to print out of Excel correctly. (where the text itself is in
color). Thanks -

 

[Tu]

Yes, We did not check the Draft quality under Black and white. We tried to
print in Xerox color also.

 

[EdwardR]

I also have the same problem. My computer support has been trying to two
days to figure it out. The print preview shows black and white, and text
prints in black and white, but cell background color and jpeg images that are
inserted into the spreadsheet will print in color. We are about to
re-install Office from the cd to see if this fixes the problem.

Does anyone have any other suggestions?

thanks

Ed

 

[vrvj]

I have the same problem. Text in color is not printing, background etc.
prints in color. In Word text is printing in color. I'm be curious about the
solution.

 

[Erin Searfoss]

I'm having the same trouble. There was an 8/17/08 reply by "pf" to an
earlier post (5/12/08) by "Mike" entitled "Can not print in Color". In his
reply "pf" noted that switching the printer to Adobe then back to the desired
printer fixed the problem for "pf". I just tried it, and it worked. Still
no word on the cause or long-term solution. Good luck.

Erin

 

[vrvj]

It is not working. I have saved my excelsheet (xls) and then I choose Adobe
Writer printer. Even if I have save this pdf or cancel it, then I have choose
my original printer. The text is still in black.

 

[Erin Searfoss]

Sorry that didn't help. I wasn't able to find any other information on the
problem.

 

[Elizabeth_G]

I don't know if you resolved this but I had the same problem and found the
answer. Here is the link or you can google the question like I did. It is a
Xerox Workcentre 7655 driver failure to interact with the new PSCRIPT5.DLL
from Microsoft:

" Failure to Print Due to pscript5.dll ConflictFile Format: PDF/Adobe
Acrobat - View as HTML
WC 7655 families to print Excel color text (text prints black and white),
and the failure ... resolve the Excel color printing issue. Xerox WorkCentre
Pro ...
www.office.xerox.com/support/dctips/dc07cc0429.pdf "

 

[Erin Searfoss]

Perfect. Thanks.

I don't know if you resolved this but I had the same problem and found the
answer. Here is the link or you can google the question like I did. It is a
Xerox Workcentre 7655 driver failure to interact with the new PSCRIPT5.DLL
from Microsoft:

" Failure to Print Due to pscript5.dll ConflictFile Format: PDF/Adobe
Acrobat - View as HTML
WC 7655 families to print Excel color text (text prints black and white),
and the failure ... resolve the Excel color printing issue. Xerox WorkCentre
Pro ...
www.office.xerox.com/support/dctips/dc07cc0429.pdf "