Hello all,



Having an issue with a slide that I'm working on. I have the background formatted with a picture and the transparency set to 90%. When presenting, it looks great, the image not overwhelming the page, and all the text is easily readable. However, when I print it, it's basically printing at 0% transparency with the text being nearly impossible to read. Is my best bet just to remove the background image for print versions and throwing it back in for the actual presentation version?

Thanks,

Allen

Removing the background for print sounds like a plan.

Just for the record though I cannot repro this at all. My guess is your printer doesn't "understand" the PowerPoint transparency settings. A possible fix is to create a blank slide with the faded background, Right click and save as a PNG picture and use that as the background (at 0% transparency)

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I would say that you're right. I've tried changing to a different printer on the network and they all suffer from the same issue when using print preview. However, when I try the MS XPS Document Writer, it previews just fine.

Thanks for the help!

Are they PostScript printers? They don't usually like transparency.

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It's a Ricoh multifunction that supports PostScript so I'm assuming they've activated the function