Printing on a black & white laserjet

[Adam Vayle]

I have a PowerPoint presentation with a background graphic
that was created on a Mac in PhotoShop. The graphic was
then converted to a bitmap, jpeg and tif file. On
Slidemaster, we imported one of these files as a
background which will appear on each slide.

My computer is a PC with Windows XP and PowerPoint 2000.
I added text to the presentation. When I try to print the
presentation on a black & white HP LaserJet, the
background does NOT print at all. Only the text prints.
If I print it on a color inkjet or color laser, everything
prints fine. I sent the presentation to a colleague who
uses a Mac with PowerPoint 10. He WAS able to print the
presentation, graphics and text, on a black and white
laser printer. His printer is an HP LaserJet 4050. The
graphics, of course printed in gray, but they printed.

Also, I tried converting the PowerPoint presentation to a
PDF file, and then printing on a black and white printer,
and it WORKS (i.e. it prints out in black/white/gray).
I'm trying to figure out why I can't print the graphic
background from PowerPoint, from my PC onto a black &
white laser printer. I believe I've gone through every
single setting in PowerPoint to figure this out. Is it
something about my version of PowerPoint (2002)? Is it
the fact that I'm on a PC instead of a Mac? Is there
something about the LaserJet 4050 that has more capability
to print graphics than less expensive black/white
laserjets?

Any ideas would be appreciated. Thanks for your help.

Adam V.

 

[Steve Rindsberg]

What you're seeing is normal. When it prints to a b/w printer, PPT makes
some changes to the way it prints a presentation; generally this makes the
printouts more legible, easier to photocopy and uses less toner. All in
all, A Good Thing.

All you need to do is remove the checkmarks from "Grayscale" and "Pure Black
and White" in the print dialog box when you print and it'll print as though
to a color printer (ie, full backgrounds and all)


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[Adam Vayle]

Thank you very much. This seems to have solved the
problem. You'd laugh if you knew how much time I spent on
this just to find out I had to uncheck one box.

Thanks for your help.

-----Original Message-----
What you're seeing is normal. When it prints to a b/w printer, PPT makes
some changes to the way it prints a presentation; generally this makes the
printouts more legible, easier to photocopy and uses less toner. All in
all, A Good Thing.

All you need to do is remove the checkmarks

from "Grayscale" and "Pure Black

 

[Steve Rindsberg]

Thank you very much. This seems to have solved the

problem. You'd laugh if you knew how much time I spent on
this just to find out I had to uncheck one box.

No more than I'd laugh at myself over how long it took me to find the Edit
Color Schemes feature the first time I went looking for it in XP. The
answers you already know are the easy ones. It's the ones you don't that

 

[John Langhans [MSFT]]

Hello Adam,

If you (or anyone else reading this message) have ideas about how
PowerPoint can make it easier to discover, understand and change how color
presentations should print to black and white printers (without having to
resort to programming or add-ins), don't forget to send your feedback to
Microsoft at:

http://register.microsoft.com/mswish/suggestion.asp

As with all product suggestions, it's important that you not just state
your wish but also why it is important to you that your product suggestion
be implemented by Microsoft. Microsoft receives thousands of product
suggestions every day and we read each one but, in any given product
development cycle, there are only sufficient resources to address the ones
that are most important to our customers so take the extra time to state
your case as clearly and completely as possible. Each submission should be
a single suggestion (not a list of suggestions).

John Langhans
Microsoft Corporation
Supportability Program Manager
Microsoft Office PowerPoint for Windows
Microsoft Office Picture Manager for Windows

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