"Chris Pohlad-Thomas" wrote in message
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I had a user with a question regarding color pages. We have a leased
photocopier/printer where a counter is used to count the number of color
pages printed. We recently had a fairly high page count so the question
came about, if you print a document where one page is color, does Microsoft
designate that whole document as being color and thus even if you had 1 out
of 5 pages that were color it would register as 5 pages of color. Any
thoughts?

I suspect that the answer is "yes", i.e. the whole document is considered to
be coloured if the color option is set. Can you see the counter on the
machine itself? If you can, it would be a simple matter to run a short test.
Create a test document, put blue text on one page, black text on 2 other
pages, print the document and see how the color page count changes.

If this is the situation, this article may help keep the color page count
down

Controlling the Printer from Word VBA
Part 2: Using VBA to control Duplex, Color Mode and Print Quality
http://pubs.logicalexpressions.com/P...cle.asp?ID=116


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Jonathan West - Word MVP
www.intelligentdocuments.co.uk
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