Printing Graphics - Please Help!

[roadsweeper]

Hi

I have a Dell 3100CN colour laser printer. I'm trying to print a business card using MS PowerPoint on MS Windows XP Home Edition and am having a problem.

Specifically, I print my business card and the logo, which is inserted into the slide as a graphic, appears in a very lightly-shaded rectangle whose borders align with the edge of the graphic. For example, if the graphic was a dark blue circle, I would get a square background that was almost, but not quite, white, with the length of the borders matching the diameter of the circle. I hope this can be visualised from my description?!

The same problem also occurs if I export the image to a bitmap and print it from my graphics program (The GIMP v2.2). The background is definitely not there on the screen (I have used the colour selector and checked the RGB value) so I can't understand where it is appearing from!?

I have seen this problem before with different printers and computers, etc. at work but have never had to fix it myself. It seems to be independent of the application I print from so my suspicions are currently falling on the print driver, though I have the latest one from Dell as far as I can see.

If someone can help I would be massively grateful.

Thanks in advance.

[m-five]

This is probably a bitmap format logo (jpeg, tiff, bmp)

If you can't get a vector format (wmf) then the workaround is to try using the transparency tool in PowerPoint to make the background transparent and try again.

[Zad]

Go into the printer setup. It *may* be that it has been set to print darker. Also, if you print it in mono does it still print a faint grey background?

Mike

[roadsweeper]

m-five said:

This is probably a bitmap format logo (jpeg, tiff, bmp) If you can't get a vector format (wmf) then the workaround is to try using the transparency tool in PowerPoint to make the background transparent and try again.

That did the trick - many, many thanks!