White ines appear black when printed

[dOinK]

I have a presentation wherer I have used white rectangles to cover parts of
other objects. This looks as expected on screen and when printed on a color
printer (Xerox Phaser). However, when printed on a black&white laser (HP
LaserJet 4000), the "white" boxes appear with black borders, also when
observing the print preview screen.

Is this caused by PowerPoint (version 2002), or am I looking at a printer
driver issue? The printer is connected via an IP port (network).

dOinK

 

[dOinK]

Aha! I just found a way of avoiding the unwanted printing of object borders
(the kind that should be white as white paper . If I specify color output
(in the Print dialog) even when selecting a B&W printer, the result is good!

Nevertheless: does anyone know if this is a driver or PowerPoint issue, and
if e.g. it is by design?

Thanks!
dOinK

 

[John Langhans [MSFT]]

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Hello,

This is by design. When printing, PowerPoint detects whether or not the
selected printer is color capable or not and, if not, prints the slides in
grayscale mode with automatically applies certain rules as to how things
will print differently than if they were printed to a color printer.

PowerPoint provides an interface for controlling (on a per-object basis)
how things will print. Check out the help topics:

* Adjust presentation colors to print in black and white
* About printing in black and white

If you (or anyone else reading this message) have suggestions for how
PowerPoint might improve how it prints color content to black & white
printers, don't forget to send your feedback (in YOUR OWN WORDS, please) to
Microsoft at:

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Microsoft Corporation
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[dOinK]

Thanks to both of you - this was very helpful!

dOinK

 

[Steve Rindsberg]

Aha! I just found a way of avoiding the unwanted printing of object borders
(the kind that should be white as white paper . If I specify color output
(in the Print dialog) even when selecting a B&W printer, the result is good!

Nevertheless: does anyone know if this is a driver or PowerPoint issue, and
if e.g. it is by design?

By design. The general idea is that when printing to b/w printers, PPT doesn't
print any background graphics, makes all the text black, removes the fill from
graphics on each slide but outlines them in black so you can tell they're
there.

Generally it works out ok, but not always for all presentations.

Here's a way to get more control:

Control how your presentation prints in B/W
http://www.rdpslides.com/pptfaq/FAQ00522.htm