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The pain of printing charts
Morning
So I have a rather large document in word which has lots of lovely colourful charts inserted into it. All looks good, print preview looks fine. So, i press print and the charts on several pages of the print have now dissapeared! So I try printing in black and white and they all print out fine. I print out one page at a time in colour and it prints out fine. Ive searched the internet and standard replies are that "drawing objects" and "background images" should be checked in the tools menu, which they are. Does anyone have any ideas? I am at a loss on this. My only thought is that MS word has problems processing lots of graphics in a document and randomly prints blanks as soon as it reaches its limit. Marvelous. That said, I converted the document to pdf file and the same charts are missing when printed! Anyway, any help gratefully appreciated. Thanks |
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The pain of printing charts
Oh and im using Word 2003.
Thanks "Smudgerrr" wrote: Morning So I have a rather large document in word which has lots of lovely colourful charts inserted into it. All looks good, print preview looks fine. So, i press print and the charts on several pages of the print have now dissapeared! So I try printing in black and white and they all print out fine. I print out one page at a time in colour and it prints out fine. Ive searched the internet and standard replies are that "drawing objects" and "background images" should be checked in the tools menu, which they are. Does anyone have any ideas? I am at a loss on this. My only thought is that MS word has problems processing lots of graphics in a document and randomly prints blanks as soon as it reaches its limit. Marvelous. That said, I converted the document to pdf file and the same charts are missing when printed! Anyway, any help gratefully appreciated. Thanks |
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The pain of printing charts
Oh and im using Word 2003.
Thanks "Smudgerrr" wrote: Morning So I have a rather large document in word which has lots of lovely colourful charts inserted into it. All looks good, print preview looks fine. So, i press print and the charts on several pages of the print have now dissapeared! So I try printing in black and white and they all print out fine. I print out one page at a time in colour and it prints out fine. Ive searched the internet and standard replies are that "drawing objects" and "background images" should be checked in the tools menu, which they are. Does anyone have any ideas? I am at a loss on this. My only thought is that MS word has problems processing lots of graphics in a document and randomly prints blanks as soon as it reaches its limit. Marvelous. That said, I converted the document to pdf file and the same charts are missing when printed! Anyway, any help gratefully appreciated. Thanks |
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The pain of printing charts
You might try (for this document only) disabling background printing (Tools
| Options | Print). This will mean that you won't be able to do anything else while the document is printing, but if the issue is a spooling one, that might correct it. -- Suzanne S. Barnhill Microsoft MVP (Word) Words into Type Fairhope, Alabama USA http://word.mvps.org "Smudgerrr" wrote in message ... Morning So I have a rather large document in word which has lots of lovely colourful charts inserted into it. All looks good, print preview looks fine. So, i press print and the charts on several pages of the print have now dissapeared! So I try printing in black and white and they all print out fine. I print out one page at a time in colour and it prints out fine. Ive searched the internet and standard replies are that "drawing objects" and "background images" should be checked in the tools menu, which they are. Does anyone have any ideas? I am at a loss on this. My only thought is that MS word has problems processing lots of graphics in a document and randomly prints blanks as soon as it reaches its limit. Marvelous. That said, I converted the document to pdf file and the same charts are missing when printed! Anyway, any help gratefully appreciated. Thanks |
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You might try (for this document only) disabling background printing (Tools
| Options | Print). This will mean that you won't be able to do anything else while the document is printing, but if the issue is a spooling one, that might correct it. -- Suzanne S. Barnhill Microsoft MVP (Word) Words into Type Fairhope, Alabama USA http://word.mvps.org "Smudgerrr" wrote in message ... Morning So I have a rather large document in word which has lots of lovely colourful charts inserted into it. All looks good, print preview looks fine. So, i press print and the charts on several pages of the print have now dissapeared! So I try printing in black and white and they all print out fine. I print out one page at a time in colour and it prints out fine. Ive searched the internet and standard replies are that "drawing objects" and "background images" should be checked in the tools menu, which they are. Does anyone have any ideas? I am at a loss on this. My only thought is that MS word has problems processing lots of graphics in a document and randomly prints blanks as soon as it reaches its limit. Marvelous. That said, I converted the document to pdf file and the same charts are missing when printed! Anyway, any help gratefully appreciated. Thanks |
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Hi Suzanne
Unfortunately this has not worked. Will update if I solve! "Suzanne S. Barnhill" wrote: You might try (for this document only) disabling background printing (Tools | Options | Print). This will mean that you won't be able to do anything else while the document is printing, but if the issue is a spooling one, that might correct it. -- Suzanne S. Barnhill Microsoft MVP (Word) Words into Type Fairhope, Alabama USA http://word.mvps.org "Smudgerrr" wrote in message ... Morning So I have a rather large document in word which has lots of lovely colourful charts inserted into it. All looks good, print preview looks fine. So, i press print and the charts on several pages of the print have now dissapeared! So I try printing in black and white and they all print out fine. I print out one page at a time in colour and it prints out fine. Ive searched the internet and standard replies are that "drawing objects" and "background images" should be checked in the tools menu, which they are. Does anyone have any ideas? I am at a loss on this. My only thought is that MS word has problems processing lots of graphics in a document and randomly prints blanks as soon as it reaches its limit. Marvelous. That said, I converted the document to pdf file and the same charts are missing when printed! Anyway, any help gratefully appreciated. Thanks . |
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Hi Suzanne Unfortunately this has not worked. Will update if I solve! "Suzanne S. Barnhill" wrote: You might try (for this document only) disabling background printing (Tools | Options | Print). This will mean that you won't be able to do anything else while the document is printing, but if the issue is a spooling one, that might correct it. -- Suzanne S. Barnhill Microsoft MVP (Word) Words into Type Fairhope, Alabama USA http://word.mvps.org "Smudgerrr" wrote in message ... Morning So I have a rather large document in word which has lots of lovely colourful charts inserted into it. All looks good, print preview looks fine. So, i press print and the charts on several pages of the print have now dissapeared! So I try printing in black and white and they all print out fine. I print out one page at a time in colour and it prints out fine. Ive searched the internet and standard replies are that "drawing objects" and "background images" should be checked in the tools menu, which they are. Does anyone have any ideas? I am at a loss on this. My only thought is that MS word has problems processing lots of graphics in a document and randomly prints blanks as soon as it reaches its limit. Marvelous. That said, I converted the document to pdf file and the same charts are missing when printed! Anyway, any help gratefully appreciated. Thanks . |
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Smudgerrr typed: Morning So I have a rather large document in word which has lots of lovely colourful charts inserted into it. All looks good, print preview looks fine. So, i press print and the charts on several pages of the print have now dissapeared! So I try printing in black and white and they all print out fine. I print out one page at a time in colour and it prints out fine. Ive searched the internet and standard replies are that "drawing objects" and "background images" should be checked in the tools menu, which they are. Does anyone have any ideas? I am at a loss on this. My only thought is that MS word has problems processing lots of graphics in a document and randomly prints blanks as soon as it reaches its limit. Marvelous. That said, I converted the document to pdf file and the same charts are missing when printed! Anyway, any help gratefully appreciated. Thanks I've had similar problems but not in Office. Thus these are untested judgements based only of my experience and knwledge. I've never had the problem in Office. Are you perhaps changing the printer before you print? What you see onscreen and in Preview is determined by the printer drivers. So when print, you need to be using the exact same drivers that were loaded when you looked at them in Word. Assuming not, and that you're using the default printer, then the first thing I'd likely try would be remove and replace the printer drivers or if there is an update, update them too. Update printer drivers ONLY from the manufacturer of your printer. Do NOT trust any other source for drivers, including Microsoft, which sometimes offers printere drivers. PDF having the same issues as the Word printed file would be to be expected as it takes them from the same set of printer drivers when it creates the PDF. Assuming you have no luck with the above: - How many printers are installed? - Are the charts all created by the same application? Any relation to what's not printing? - Are they linked or inserted charts? - Are the missing charts all the same chart format but different from the ones that do print? Those answers might help someone who's seen the issue help you further. Print Preview uses the same drivers as used for the printer at print time, so it's strange that preview and printer output don't match. Have you tried the Office Repair feature? Usually avaliable under Help. Requires the original install disks. Pretty sure 2k3 still has it. HTH, Twayne` -- Life is the only real counselor; wisdom unfiltered through personal experience does not become a part of the moral tissue. |
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Smudgerrr typed: Morning So I have a rather large document in word which has lots of lovely colourful charts inserted into it. All looks good, print preview looks fine. So, i press print and the charts on several pages of the print have now dissapeared! So I try printing in black and white and they all print out fine. I print out one page at a time in colour and it prints out fine. Ive searched the internet and standard replies are that "drawing objects" and "background images" should be checked in the tools menu, which they are. Does anyone have any ideas? I am at a loss on this. My only thought is that MS word has problems processing lots of graphics in a document and randomly prints blanks as soon as it reaches its limit. Marvelous. That said, I converted the document to pdf file and the same charts are missing when printed! Anyway, any help gratefully appreciated. Thanks I've had similar problems but not in Office. Thus these are untested judgements based only of my experience and knwledge. I've never had the problem in Office. Are you perhaps changing the printer before you print? What you see onscreen and in Preview is determined by the printer drivers. So when print, you need to be using the exact same drivers that were loaded when you looked at them in Word. Assuming not, and that you're using the default printer, then the first thing I'd likely try would be remove and replace the printer drivers or if there is an update, update them too. Update printer drivers ONLY from the manufacturer of your printer. Do NOT trust any other source for drivers, including Microsoft, which sometimes offers printere drivers. PDF having the same issues as the Word printed file would be to be expected as it takes them from the same set of printer drivers when it creates the PDF. Assuming you have no luck with the above: - How many printers are installed? - Are the charts all created by the same application? Any relation to what's not printing? - Are they linked or inserted charts? - Are the missing charts all the same chart format but different from the ones that do print? Those answers might help someone who's seen the issue help you further. Print Preview uses the same drivers as used for the printer at print time, so it's strange that preview and printer output don't match. Have you tried the Office Repair feature? Usually avaliable under Help. Requires the original install disks. Pretty sure 2k3 still has it. HTH, Twayne` -- Life is the only real counselor; wisdom unfiltered through personal experience does not become a part of the moral tissue. |
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