Colour Printing From Report

[jk12]

Hi all, i'm having a rather annoying problem. When I view my report I have 2 sets of conditional formatting that run, one that changes the back colours of certain fileds when the criteria is meet, and the second, the text colour of certain fields, both of which work fine when previewing the report. However, when I print the report, any of the back colour in the preview does not print out but text colour does. If I print from another office programme i.e. Word, block colour is printed fine its just seems to not work in my access.

Please note that if the same report is printed from another computer, it prints fine.

Please does anyone have any idea on why this is happening and how to sort it. Thanks in advance for any ideas and help.

 

[The_Doc_Man]

Let's see if I got this right.

Report X has forecolor and backcolor.
Another document, say Y, in Word or Excel, has forecolor and backcolor.

On printer A, X prints forecolor but not backcolor. Y prints both.
On printer B, X and Y both print forecolor and backcolor.

If this is a correct summation of the observed symptom, you have a printer color resolution issue. We rarely think of it in these terms, but let me try to draw an analogy.

Say you have a fancy-schmancy color card. You set it to 32-bit color. You can see damned near any color you can imagine. Now drop the card to use a color scheme such as 256-color palette or 16-bit color. Some shades are so delicate that they vanish. This happens when the color bit-planes lose enough bits that they cannot correctly represent all colors any more.

I suspect that the two printers have a corresponding problem. My first advice is to check the owner's manual for the two printers and see if they have any comments about "color depth" or "color purity." Then see if the drivers have multiple settings and the color setting for the offending printer is set too low.

Though if document Y use the same exact backcolor as document X, that really shouldn't happen. But if there is a difference in the backcolors, it could.