Non-White Text or Graphics Printed in Black

• 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.

RESOLUTION

This issue is resolved by the following updated file(s) for Windows 95 and OSR2, or later versions of these file(s):

   UNIDRV.DLL  version 4.00.951  dated 8/30/96  197,648 bytes 

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 computers 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.

This issue is resolved in Microsoft Windows 98.

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.

For additional information about Windows 95 updates, please see the following article in the Microsoft Knowledge Base:

Q161020 Implementing Windows 95 Updates

Additional query words: grey gray scale font

Keywords : kbgraphic kbprint win95
Version : 95
Platform : WINDOWS
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