Transparencies are printing solid

[Guest]

This may well be a printer driver issue.
I'm printing to a colour laserjet printer and the driver is a pcl5 (the
printer is a PS print, but the driver doesn't appear to be post script).

Anyway ... when I create transparent shapes/colours in PPT 2002, they don't
print transparent, although they are fine on the screen and in the print
preview.

Has anyone else run into this ... or found a fix within Powerpoint. The
drivers are controlled by our IT department ... and I may not be able to
convince them to change the drivers, so I'm checking to see if there's a fix
within Powerpoint before I drive down that road.

Thanks for any thoughts. Diana
Diana

 

[Steve Rindsberg]

Diana,

Have a look here:

Gradient transparency doesn't print properly
http://www.rdpslides.com/pptfaq/FAQ00693.htm

It's not a printer driver problem, and it won't work with a PS driver either.

 

[Guest]

Steve that worked. Thanks for sharing ... and it was easy.

Unfortunately, some of what I'm working with is text, which means I can't
change how it flows, so I'll have to keep a copy of the "text" version in the
workspace or work with the text version until I'm ready to do a test print.

Thanks again. At least I can print it the way it's supposed to look (to the
extent that, that's even possible ... <weg>)
Diana

 

[Steve Rindsberg]

Steve that worked. Thanks for sharing ... and it was easy.

Unfortunately, some of what I'm working with is text, which means I can't
change how it flows, so I'll have to keep a copy of the "text" version in the
workspace or work with the text version until I'm ready to do a test print.

Yep, afraid so. That's the trouble with these workarounds. They can be a real
pain.