Wordpad annoyance

Hello, a quick de lurk for an annoyance ...
Win7 Home premium 64bit ... now saving for new copy of Office (we have
Office XP, but want to upgrade).
Started using wordpad for small documents at the moment, but we get a
grey background printed on every document. Have tried printer
preferences, changing text colour, no joy.

Anyone have an idea ? ... have googled and found a few with the same
problem, but no real answers.

TIA

On Sat, 06 Aug 2011 06:44:20 +1000, karebai wrote:

> Hello, a quick de lurk for an annoyance ...
> Win7 Home premium 64bit ... now saving for new copy of Office (we have
> Office XP, but want to upgrade).
> Started using wordpad for small documents at the moment, but we get a
> grey background printed on every document. Have tried printer
> preferences, changing text colour, no joy.
>
> Anyone have an idea ? ... have googled and found a few with the same
> problem, but no real answers.
>
> TIA

I suspect not many people here would be using WordPad, so maybe you'd
have better luck if you could find a forum on that program.

OTOH, if I'm wrong, you'll probably get a good answer or two here :-)

But I do notice that you said "changing text colour". Have you tried
changing the background color?

--
Gene E. Bloch (Stumbling Bloch)

On Fri, 5 Aug 2011 13:51:34 -0700, "Gene E. Bloch"
<not-> wrote:

snipped
>
>I suspect not many people here would be using WordPad, so maybe you'd
>have better luck if you could find a forum on that program.
>
>OTOH, if I'm wrong, you'll probably get a good answer or two here :-)
>
>But I do notice that you said "changing text colour". Have you tried
>changing the background color?

Thanks

we do have a grey window background (white a little harsh). That was
set back to white, teal, red, and we still get a grey background when
the document is printed.

No luck in finding a specific wordpad forum ....

On 05/08/2011 21:44, karebai wrote:
> Hello, a quick de lurk for an annoyance ...
> Win7 Home premium 64bit ... now saving for new copy of Office (we have
> Office XP, but want to upgrade).
> Started using wordpad for small documents at the moment, but we get a
> grey background printed on every document. Have tried printer
> preferences, changing text colour, no joy.
>
> Anyone have an idea ? ... have googled and found a few with the same
> problem, but no real answers.
>
> TIA

Have you tried "black and white" print setting?

Ed

On Fri, 05 Aug 2011 22:14:38 +0100, Ed Cryer <>
wrote:

>On 05/08/2011 21:44, karebai wrote:
>> Hello, a quick de lurk for an annoyance ...
>> Win7 Home premium 64bit ... now saving for new copy of Office (we have
>> Office XP, but want to upgrade).
>> Started using wordpad for small documents at the moment, but we get a
>> grey background printed on every document. Have tried printer
>> preferences, changing text colour, no joy.
>>
>> Anyone have an idea ? ... have googled and found a few with the same
>> problem, but no real answers.
>>
>> TIA
>
>Have you tried "black and white" print setting?
>
>Ed

Yes, and grey scale, and just about everything we can change .... even
thought the window colour was affecting it .. lol

Wandering along the edges of alt.windows7.general, I found the following
bit of electronic flotsam written by karebai <> in
news::

>>
>>Have you tried "black and white" print setting?
>>
>>Ed
>
> Yes, and grey scale, and just about everything we can change .... even
> thought the window colour was affecting it .. lol
>

Have you checked that there's a color cartridge in the printer? Without
color ink, you obviously can't print color, but it could be easy to
overlook, if you're concentrating on settings, etc.

On 05 Aug 2011 22:00:23 GMT, BookWight <>
wrote:

>Wandering along the edges of alt.windows7.general, I found the following
>bit of electronic flotsam written by karebai <> in
>news::
>
>>>
>>>Have you tried "black and white" print setting?
>>>
>>>Ed
>>
>> Yes, and grey scale, and just about everything we can change .... even
>> thought the window colour was affecting it .. lol
>>
>
>Have you checked that there's a color cartridge in the printer? Without
>color ink, you obviously can't print color, but it could be easy to
>overlook, if you're concentrating on settings, etc.

Ummm ... yes there is a colour cartridge in, but we are trying NOT to
print a coloured background ....

On Sat, 06 Aug 2011 07:03:26 +1000, karebai wrote:

> On Fri, 5 Aug 2011 13:51:34 -0700, "Gene E. Bloch"
> <not-> wrote:
>
> snipped
>>
>>I suspect not many people here would be using WordPad, so maybe you'd
>>have better luck if you could find a forum on that program.
>>
>>OTOH, if I'm wrong, you'll probably get a good answer or two here :-)
>>
>>But I do notice that you said "changing text colour". Have you tried
>>changing the background color?
>
> Thanks
>
> we do have a grey window background (white a little harsh). That was
> set back to white, teal, red, and we still get a grey background when
> the document is printed.
>
> No luck in finding a specific wordpad forum ....

I meant the *text* background color.

--
Gene E. Bloch (Stumbling Bloch)

On Fri, 5 Aug 2011 15:27:10 -0700, Gene E. Bloch wrote:

> On Sat, 06 Aug 2011 07:03:26 +1000, karebai wrote:
>
>> On Fri, 5 Aug 2011 13:51:34 -0700, "Gene E. Bloch"
>> <not-> wrote:
>>
>> snipped
>>>
>>>I suspect not many people here would be using WordPad, so maybe you'd
>>>have better luck if you could find a forum on that program.
>>>
>>>OTOH, if I'm wrong, you'll probably get a good answer or two here :-)
>>>
>>>But I do notice that you said "changing text colour". Have you tried
>>>changing the background color?
>>
>> Thanks
>>
>> we do have a grey window background (white a little harsh). That was
>> set back to white, teal, red, and we still get a grey background when
>> the document is printed.
>>
>> No luck in finding a specific wordpad forum ....
>
> I meant the *text* background color.

And of course, I have to ask this:

What is the color of the paper are you using?

....This is meant to add some humor to the situation :-)

Or humour (not to mention colour), in your case :-)

--
Gene E. Bloch (Stumbling Bloch)

In message <>, karebai
<> writes:
>On 05 Aug 2011 22:00:23 GMT, BookWight <>
>wrote:
[]
>>Have you checked that there's a color cartridge in the printer? Without
>>color ink, you obviously can't print color, but it could be easy to
>>overlook, if you're concentrating on settings, etc.
>
>Ummm ... yes there is a colour cartridge in, but we are trying NOT to
>print a coloured background ....

You need some white ink?
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