Non-White Text or Graphics Printed in Black

Last reviewed: January 5, 1998
Article ID: Q130508
The information in this article applies to:
  • Microsoft Windows 95

SYMPTOMS

When you print colored text or graphics to a black and white printer, all non-white colors are printed as black. Even light gray text or graphics is printed as black.

STATUS

Microsoft has confirmed this to be a problem in Microsoft Windows 95 and OEM Service Release 2 (OSR2). An update to address this problem is now available, but is not fully regression-tested and should be applied only to systems experiencing this specific problem. Unless you are severely impacted by this specific problem, Microsoft does not recommend implementing this update at this time. Contact Microsoft Technical Support for additional information about the availability of this update.

MORE INFORMATION

This behavior occurs when you print using the UNIDRV.DLL driver. The UNIDRV.DLL driver maps all non-white colors to black when you print to a black and white printer.

Note that some printers that do not use the UNIDRV.DLL driver print light gray to a black and white printer.

If you are using a Hewlett-Packard (HP) LaserJet 4-series printer with the printer drivers included with Windows 95, you can work around this behavior by using the Windows 3.1 printer driver from HP. This driver does not use the UNIDRV.DLL driver.


Additional query words: 95 grey gray scale font
Keywords : win95 kbgraphic kbprint
Version : 95
Platform : WINDOWS


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Last reviewed: January 5, 1998
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