Color / BW

[Henry]

Hi.

I have a multipage document with many color images.

I found out that I could print many pages in Black and White.

Is there a way to 'instruct' Word 2003 so that specific pages are
printed BW? I mean, some sort of escape code that, inserted here and
there, instruct word to print Color or BW?

Thanks
H. Martins

 

[grammatim]

That's a printer thing rather than a Word thing.

You could do it in two passes -- first print all the pages that you
want to have color on them (you can select discontinuous pages and
ranges with commas and hyphens); then find the setting in your printer
properties panel for printing color as b&w, and print the rest of the
pages.

 

[Henry]

That's a printer thing rather than a Word thing.

You could do it in two passes -- first print all the pages that you
want to have color on them (you can select discontinuous pages and
ranges with commas and hyphens); then find the setting in your printer
properties panel for printing color as b&w, and print the rest of the
pages.

I have to print over 100 manuals of about 300 pages each. Just imagine
the resulting puzzle.

H. Martins

 

[grammatim]

Then don't omit relevant details!

If there's a reason for having a version with color illustrations and
a version with non-color illustrations, why not make another copy of
the document, and decolorize the ones that shouldn't be color?

 

[QOAT]

Henry

Why don't you just make these images "grayscale"?

 

[Graham Mayor]

Thinking out loud, as I don't have your printer to be able to check whether
this would work, but one method that comes to mind would be to set up a
second printer driver to the *same* printer configured for black and white.
You can then use a macro to direct the output of the document to the
appropriate 'printer' according to whether you want colour on that page or
not. You can see methods for switching 'printers' at
http://www.gmayor.com/fax_from_word.htm . What however you haven't made
clear is how you determine (and therefore how the macro could determine)
which of the pages are to be printed in colour and which are not.

The other possibility which you have raised yourself is to use escape codes
in conjunction with print fields to switch colour on and off . Whether this
is possible rather depends on what your printer driver is capable of and
what programming language it responds to.

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[Henry]

Grammatim:

"If there's a reason for having a version with color illustrations and
a version with non-color illustrations, why not make another copy of
the document, and decolorize the ones that shouldn't be color? "

Because there are hundreds of images and some color entities are not
just images, difficult to convert to gray. It is much easier to apply
it to chunks of pages.
"Why don't you just make these images "grayscale"? "

For the same reason as above

Graham Mayor:

That could well be a solution.

Thanks
H. Martins