Printing a colour presentation in B&W - no white text showing?

[Denise Stahl]

Hi there
I'm new to the user group world and seeing as to how this is my first
question ever - I'm sure it will be a repeat to yawl!

I'm trying to print out a colour presentation but in black and white to save
on ink and b&w is better for faxing. The problem is that I have white text
on a dark bkgd and would like to have the text print as I see it on the
screen - white text stays white instead of turning to black.

The same holds true especially for my graphs - axis and any text I have on
my screen that is white, prints out black.

Is there anything I can do to make it print out white?

I'm using a Lexmark 5700 and PPT97 on Windows 98 OS.
I also tried it on my virtual fax and the same thing - (www.jfax.com)

Thank you for any assistance you can give me with this question.

On another printing item - is there no other better way to be able to print
out my files so they center on the page properly.
I'm having the same problem as another user, where the print out is off
center by a half inch. The resolution was:
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Powerpoint is trying to center your slide on the page, Frank. Problem is,
it's not getting the full page size from the printer driver but instead has
to work with the imageable area, the area that the printer engine can
actually print to. While it centers the slide in that area, the area itself
isn't centered by the printer on the physical page. Which is a longwinded
way of saying "The printer's margins aren't even." <g>

So what you do is something like this:

Don't print slides. Print notes pages instead. Go to the Notes Master,
delete the text placeholder and all that other schtuff. Everything but the
slide image. Bump up the slide image to fill the page and try printing.
You'll need to nudge it around a bit, but persevere. You'll come up with a
combo of size/position that gives you a pretty well centered printout, and
you won't have to fiddle the slide itself.
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Can I not adjust something in my printer settings since I work on quite a
bit of different presentations and this seems to be a little involved for
multiple presentations???

Cheers
Denise

[PK Huntzinger]

Hi Denise,

For your first question: easiest solution to try first is to uncheck the
"print black and white" box on the print window. If that doesn't get you what
you want, you can go to View, Black and white. Then while you are in the B/W
view you can click any object and set the B/W print options for it.

Second question: That was our Steve. We keep him around for questions like
that. You can set the notes page layout in the master, that may help. Other
than that, you can check out the web page for your printer (www.lexmark.com
will get you started). If that doesn't help, then the only other "solution"
that I know of is to NOT use an inkjet printer.

Sorry to be of so little help

Kathy

[Denise Stahl]

Thanks for trying but I eventually figured out how that person originally
created the presentation.
They inserted a picture ontop of the background. If they had placed it as
the bkgd picture it would have worked much better. One it was part of the
bkgd I can view it in B&W and if it still wasn't right I could right click
on the screen and choose from the different B&W options till I got the look
of the B&W printout I wanted. Ta da!!

About the printer I'll be writing Lexmarx for sure!

Merci Beacoup Kathy
Denise

[Steve Rindsberg]

> Can I not adjust something in my printer settings since I work on quite a
> bit of different presentations and this seems to be a little involved for
> multiple presentations???

It'll depend on what settings are available in the printer driver. I've
just been playing with a different inkjet printer (an Epson) that allows you
to set it to report the largest printable area or *centered* area. If you
choose the former, you can print a slightly larger image, but it'll be off
center. If you choose the latter, the image is a bit smaller but centered.