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jenr36122541
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July 3, 2023
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Background colors disappear printing in black and white

  • July 3, 2023
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I have a document with 3 background boxes (a light green, a light blue, and a light orange). On top of those I have text boxes. On screen, everything looks fine. If I print in black and white, the 3 background boxes really can't be seen they are so faint or not there. Why are they not printing in some variation of gray? 

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    NB, colourmanagement
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    NB, colourmanagementCommunity Expert
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    July 5, 2023

    @jenr36122541 HI, if you want the boxes to print in colour, then simply flatten a copy of the file and print that. 

    If you want black and white, then I suggest you flatten a copy, desaturate (stay in RGB, as it's more universal than greyscale) and check the appearance onscreen before printing.

    If your display screen is reasonably well calibrated and you are using the printer's ICC media profile correctly*

    [*I recommend in the print dialog choose Photoshop Manages Color, then choose the media ICC profile for your printer, now be sure to set the correct media in the print driver in "print settings") -

    then you should see a reasonable match to the onscreen image in print.

     

    I hope this helps
    neil barstow, colourmanagement net - adobe forum volunteer - co-author: 'getting colour right'
    google me "neil barstow colourmanagement" for lots of free articles on colour management

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