ClearType causing black and white text to print in color!

[Steve]

Has anyone noticed this? I can't believe nobody else has posted on
this, but I seem to have this problem. I have Windows XP Pro with
ClearType turned on, using an NEC LCD1712 flat panel monitor. I have
a recent driver installed for an HP Deskjet 990Cse. The driver is set
to allow color printing.

After pulling up a page with black and white text in Internet
Explorer, I then proceed to print this page. For anyone that's looked
closely at their screen using ClearType, they will notice sub color
pixels illuminated on the edges of text. But are these small color
pixels supposed to appear on the PRINTED page?! Before, color printed
as color and black text as black. Now I get my printer trying to
reproduce EXACTLY what's on the screen with ClearType! Is this
normal?

 

[Michael Solomon \(MS-MVP Windows Shell/User\)]

I haven't noticed this, I don't see it, I have a Sharp LL-T19D1 with its
drivers installed and ClearType turned on. My printer is an HP PSC 1210
with color printing enabled.

Perhaps you could post a link to the page in question.

 

[Steve]

I printed the Google home page from IE on normal inkjet paper in draft
(300 dpi) mode. A sample was then scanned at 600 dpi and saved as a
jpeg with a quality mode of 85. Though it is hard to see, if you look
closely you will notice small amounts of color on the edges of the
black text. Almost as if the letters were printed in something I
think they call "process black" (or whatever happens when you print
black with a printer lacking a black ink cartridge). Mine DOES have a
black cartridge... I am still stumped!

http://us.f1f.yahoofs.com/bc/4f0f31f0/bc/Web+Public/Print.jpg?bfKHjcABdlwe3Ldz

 

[Steve]

Sorry...... Here's the correct link. Go first to folder, "WebPublic".

http://f1.pg.briefcase.yahoo.com/sfs/

 

[Michael Solomon \(MS-MVP Windows Shell/User\)]

Depending upon printer, black can be made up of a combination of colors,
even when you have a separate black ink cartridge and the more you enlarge
the text (which I guess you did to better exemplify what you were saying)
the more visible it is. That's one possibility.

Here's another, printing in Windows is WYSIWYG (What You See Is What You
Get) and if the text looks as it appears and as you describe, that's how it
will print. Also, note, this is not a text document, this is a web page.
Do you see the same effect when you view and print a text document?

 

[Steve]

I tried printing from Wordpad and it appears to be just black text on
the printed page. Honestly though, I don't think it should be
printing EXACTLY what's on the screen, WYSIWYG or not. Cleartype
should not change the underlying format or font of that text, even in
the browser. If it's black text, it should be printed only as black
(as it always did before I activated ClearType). I think this is
unacceptable otherwise. I still cannot understand why others have not
been impacted by it unless it is some problem with the HP driver.
Either that, or people are not noticing the small bits of color on
their printed black text pages!