[Solved] Colour printing

[leeds loiner]

I have recently downloaded open office 3. and am having problems with my colour printing.When i do a coloured sign ,ie no menus as an example it prints it off in black & white. What am i not doing right.

[Hagar Delest]

Hi and welcome to the forum!

If you export as PDF first, does it work?

[leeds loiner]

not tried that. new to this. i had windows office and excel previously but my computer crashed and i lost this so am trying this new system.

[leeds loiner]

tried exporting to PDF.Still coming out black & white.

[thomasjk]

Check Tools-->Options-->Openoffice-->Print. Make sure that convert to gray scale is not checked.

[Hagar Delest]

tried exporting to PDF.Still coming out black & white.

What do you mean? The PDF or the print is B&W?
In former case, the problem is with AOO, check the setting mentioned by thomasjk. In the latter case, the problem is with your printer...

[leeds loiner]

THOMASJK. what do you mean check convert to grey scale is not checked?. I am not overl confident on new systems,sorry. My printer is fine ,will still print coloured photo's i have in my document . The problem seems to be on any coloured documents with words on that i have in my documents.

[leeds loiner]

The sheets of words show up in colour on the screen for printing on both systems but black & white comes out.

[leeds loiner]

been on to system as recommended byThomasjk. The greyscale scale is not checked.

[Hagar Delest]

It seems that there is a problem with your printer. Does it print in color with other applications (like printing an image)?

[thomasjk]

Try resetting the user profile http://forum.openoffice.org/en/forum/vi ... 74&t=12426. What kind of printer do you have?

[leeds loiner]

Tom K. Printer is a epson SX438W. As i said earlier i can print off coloured photo's from my files but not the coloured sheets of words.

[RoryOF]

I'm just now trying on an Epson WP4535; on /File /Print Select your printer (if more than one). Now click on the Properties button, which is below the Printer selection box. On my system (Ubuntu 12.04) I get two tabs on the window which opens; on is Paper ad allows setting of paper size and duplex options. The other is Device, which opens to show a list of options such as paper type selection, Colour choice. Highlight the colour choice and it should offer you two options, one for colour and one for greyscale. Select the colour. If it is available on that screen also select colour from Printer language type at the bottom and From driver and 24 bit colour.

And here is the equivalent Windows Print screen. See the choice for colour or B&W on it

[leeds loiner]

Thank you. RoryOF.I tried what you said and displayed and it seems to have done the trick. I would also like to thank everybody else who took the time to try and solve my predicument.