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Browse All TopicsI have an image in a div and some text in another div. The text is colored with html tags.
When printing in IE, the colors of the text change : white and black become gray, bright yellow becomes brownish, red stays red ??
This also happens in 'print preview'.
I first tought this was an RGB/CMYK issue, but then white should still stay white, and black black?
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by: ssammonsPosted on 2005-07-19 at 05:29:13ID: 14474275
Give this a shot:
Tools>Internet Options>General Tab(defaults to openning here)>Bottom Right Click "Accessibility"> Choose The Ignore Colors Specified on the Webpage.
Now this will change the view of ALL webpages, so try it, see if it resolves the issue. If that does it is probably IE sees the background colors, but they are out of the printable range and thus it compensates by adjusting the font color (I have had this happen alot with light gray's and yellows).
To try and correct this see if you rpint background colors if on or off on the "Advanced" tab of Internet options (same location as stated above). If OFF, tun it on, do a Print Preview, if you still have the color issue then your background color can not be printed and it can only adjust the text. If it can print the background colors and that was off, it was probably compensating. since there is a background color, it may just have been told not to print it.