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Color Printing
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? Chris |
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Color Printing
Hi Chris-
This is an interesting poser. I don't know that I'm right, but I have some thoughts on it... Word doesn't work on a concept of 'pages' as we think of it, nor does it determine whether the job will be printed in color, B&W or grayscale. It simply sends the doc info to the printer. It is the printer's settings that determine how the job is rendered on paper as well as how many sheets are going to be needed. (Obviously the printer can't generate color if the info isn't in the file .) It would seem that the count, then, also should be a matter of interpretation by the printer's logic. Does it determine the count based on the number of printed pages which actually contain color on each page or does it count the number of pages printed in a job involving color regardless of the number of pages in the job where color is actually used? Regards |:) "Chris Pohlad-Thomas" wrote: 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? Chris |
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Color Printing
"Chris Pohlad-Thomas" wrote in message ... 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 -- Regards Jonathan West - Word MVP www.intelligentdocuments.co.uk Please reply to the newsgroup Keep your VBA code safe, sign the ClassicVB petition www.classicvb.org |