PPT: Orange Text Prints Yellow on HP DeskJet 1200c

If you try to print orange text to a Hewlett-Packard (HP) DeskJet 1200c, the text will be printed as yellow rather than orange. If you have graphic objects that are the same shade of orange on the same slide, the objects will be printed as orange.

Many DeskJet printers cannot dither text. They can only print text in their primary ink colors or colors made be mixing 50% of their primary ink colors. DeskJets are limited to the following text colors: cyan, magenta, yellow, black, white, red, green, and blue. Whenever you print text that is not one of these colors, the printer prints the text as the color in the list above that is closest to the actual text color.

If you need text that is another color, you can create the text as a WordArt object. WordArt objects appear to be text, but are actually pictures that contain complex polygon shapes. These WordArt objects do not share this printer limitation.

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