[Suzanne S. Barnhill]

Yes, printing to PDF is often the only workaround. I don't know to what
extent it matters that this is MacWord, with which I have no experience.

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Suzanne S. Barnhill
Microsoft MVP (Word)
Words into Type
Fairhope, Alabama USA
http://word.mvps.org

"Martin-S" wrote in message
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In article ,
"Suzanne S. Barnhill" wrote:

No, setting it Behind Text alone doesn't make it a watermark; if you
haven't
changed the color setting, then it shouldn't *print* washed out, though
it
will be displayed that way because the background image is part of the
header.

The culprit appears to be a colour-management issue.

After the laser printer failed so miserably - I'm not being picky, but
the print looked twice as bright - I tried a desktop inkjet and our 24"
roll printer.

The desktop inkjet was way off just like the laser, but the 24" printer
was almost spot on; shame that those aren't more common in office
environments.

The image format (PNG, TIFF, JPG etc.) didn't seem to matter by the way.

And another interesting little detail: if I create a PDF from Word
first, it prints well on *all* printers.

Go figure...

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Martin