How do print a chart so the chart area 'fill' shows through it?

[holly]

I select 'none' for background in the Plot area, and I've selected a
gradient fill effect for the Chart Area. The screen displays correctly,
shows the chart fill with the Plot Area as 'transparent', but when I send
this to the printer the background of the Plot Area is solid black.
Somehow I have randomly been able to achieve the desired result, but can't
seem to repeat the magical order of steps I did to make it work for other
charts in the some workbook. So what's the trick?

 

[Jon Peltier]

Holly -

The usual culprit when printing comes out wrong is the printer driver. Make sure
that's up to the latest version.

Also make sure you're not printing in draft mode or under some other setting that
might detract from the printed appearance.

- Jon
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