print white?

[Phillip]

Hi,
I have a form with a text box for data entry. I also have a combo box for
selecting a text color. I also have a commad button that prints a report
from the data entered. Everything works fine except when I want to print in
white. I set the color to 16777215 but when it prints is just skips the
section where the white would print. All colors work great. How do I get
the white to print?
Your help would be appreciated.
Thanks,
Phil

 

[John W. Vinson]

How do you know it skips that section. What does White on White look like?

An old Beatles album?

 

[Phillip]

You can tell that it skips by watching the printer. It skips right past the
section where the white would print. Also I placed some colored paper in the
printer and there was no white.

 

[Phillip]

If you print on color paper it does not come out white!!!!!!!!

 

[Rob Parker]

Does your printer have a white ink cartridge?

Rob

 

[Rick Brandt]

Hi,
I have a form with a text box for data entry. I also have a combo box for
selecting a text color. I also have a commad button that prints a report
from the data entered. Everything works fine except when I want to print
in
white. I set the color to 16777215 but when it prints is just skips the
section where the white would print. All colors work great. How do I get
the white to print?
Your help would be appreciated.
Thanks,
Phil

Are you trolling or do you really not know that printers do not print white?

 

[fredg]

You can tell that it skips by watching the printer. It skips right past the
section where the white would print. Also I placed some colored paper in the
printer and there was no white.

Well, I'm not a scientist, but your printer is working correctly.
White indicates the absence of color (there is no specific color of
white).
Therefore it would seem correct for your printer to skip over any
portion of the page that you wanted white.

On colored paper, what you specified as white text will be whatever
the actual paper color is. Therefore a white text will display pink
if you are using pink paper, or blue if you are using blue paper, as
no ink was used for the text.

On white paper, you can use a control with a backcolor to have the
white paper color show through. Set the control's Backcolor to red,
for example. Then the white will appear through the red because no ink
was used for the text.

 

[Mike Painter]

If you print on color paper it does not come out white!!!!!!!!

I had an employee once who was typing on blue paper and made a mistake.
He took a piece of correcting tape and corrected it.
So now he has a bunch of black letters on the blue page and one white
letter.
He observed that it did not work...

Nice guy and I will say that he was a a bit smarter than his brother.