Powerpoint should allow reverse colour printing

[Guest]

When projecting powerpoint slides a coloured background is often used as this
make it easier on the eyes and also makes more of an impact.

However when printed this coloured background uses a lot of ink/toner.

The only alternative is to print it in pure black and white or grey scale.
This also affects picture and bitmaps and highlights.

What is required is the ability to map colours such as text colours and
background colours so that they print in a diffent colour scheme than when
they are projected. A typical setting might me to reverse video the colour so
what was white will be black etc.

Just to indicate the issue my slides are yellow text on a blue background I
cannot just change the background to white as the text becomes almost
invisible and I realy do not wish to change the colour scheme every time I
print I would like it to happen automatically.

 

[Ute Simon]

What is required is the ability to map colours such as text colours and

background colours so that they print in a diffent colour scheme than when
they are projected. A typical setting might me to reverse video the colour so
what was white will be black etc.

Hi Splodge,

which version of PowerPoint do you use? In PPT 2002 and 2003 you use more
than one master and thus can add an additional master with white background
for printing. Before you start printing, you apply this master with e.g.
white background, before presenting you change back to the dark background.

To get an idea what this could look like, have a look at this website:
http://www.powerfinish.com/powerfinish_templates/powerfinish_templates.html

Kind regards,
Ute

 

[Guest]

Thanks for this Ute,

I had forgotten that that will certainly help. It would however be nice if
there could be an option on the print menu to do this automatically.

 

[Steve Rindsberg]

What is required is the ability to map colours such as text colours and
background colours so that they print in a diffent colour scheme than when
they are projected. A typical setting might me to reverse video the colour so
what was white will be black etc.

In your question lies one possible answer, o wise one. ;-)

If you choose text/background colors from PowerPoint's color scheme, you can
assign a different color scheme to all of your slides before printing, one that
maps the text/bg colors to any other color or gray value you like.

It won't do this automatically at print time but it only takes a few clicks.