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Subject: Re: Question about printing CCC board diagrams

Author: Mike Hood

Date: 14:34:44 03/29/02

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On March 29, 2002 at 12:56:22, Roy Eassa wrote:

>On March 29, 2002 at 12:32:59, Mike Hood wrote:
>
>>When I print a board diagram (like the one below) on my b/w laserprinter
>>(HP-Laserjet 1200) there is no shading for the light/dark squares and no lines
>>to separate them. Is there a way for me to set up Internet Explorer to change
>>this?
>>
>>[D]r4rk1/2p1b1p1/p3q3/np1p4/3P1BR1/2P2Q1P/P1B2P2/R6K w - -
>
>
>
>Mike, the answer is yes.
>
>I posted the same question a few months ago.  You need to go to the Tools menu,
>then "Internet Options...", then the "Advanced" tab, then scroll down to the
>Printing section.  There you'll see "Print background colors and images" which
>you can turn on.  You'll get the diagrams, but beware: if you print out pages
>from other sites you can get a lot of undesirable side-effects if the background
>is not 100% plain white.  (I turn this setting on only for brief periods like
>when printing posts from this site.  It would be nice to have a quick toggle for
>this setting!)

Thanks... it works perfectly!




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