Set document properties to only print black and white

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Denise Beckingham - 27 Nov 2009 13:00 GMT

I want to set up a Word document that has colour properties to print only in
black and white but still show colour on screen. This is to prevent
recipients printing in colour.

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Graham Mayor - 27 Nov 2009 13:25 GMT

Any setting you can make locally can be easily reversed by the recipients.
Printer information is not stored with the document..

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> I want to set up a Word document that has colour properties to print
> only in black and white but still show colour on screen. This is to
> prevent recipients printing in colour.

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Tim Mastrogiacomo - 28 Nov 2009 15:49 GMT

> Any setting you can make locally can be easily reversed by the recipients.
> Printer information is not stored with the document..
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> > only in black and white but still show colour on screen. This is to
> > prevent recipients printing in colour.

But you could remove color from the document (change the font colors
and save any pictures as black and white only) and save it as a pdf.

Tim Mastrogiacomo

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bjm - 28 Nov 2009 16:13 GMT

> Denise Beckingham wrote:
> > I want to set up a Word document that has colour properties to print
> > only in black and white but still show colour on screen. This is to
> > prevent recipients printing in colour.

But you could remove color from the document (change the font colors
and save any pictures as black and white only) and save it as a pdf.

I don't know about other PDF-makers, but when I print with Adobe Acrobat I
can set it to black & white without changing the actual document -- no
fiddling with fonts or re-saving all the pictures.
bj

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