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by olaf54

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When a single print from power point is sent to the printer (page 1 of 1) the print quality is fine, but when multiple prints are sent to the printer (pages 1 to 19) the printer prints blocks of colour where before in the single print text should have been in place...has anyone else come accross this problem with power point? and can it be solved?

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by dklippert

What version of PowerPoint? What brand of printer? Does slide 2 print correctly when sent alone?
Are you using EPS graphics?
Try turning background printing off.

by ann777

Generally this is a memory issue. When you don't have enough memory to print the entire job you end up with inconsistent printing.

I recently added 4 MBs to an HP 4M Plus network printer to resolve this same issue. The printer does not block out any more information. The 4 M Plus is not a color printer and now has 16 MB of RAM.

You may require more RAM with color and 19 pages of Power Point.

by Member 35772270

No doubt you don't have enough printer memory. You can print in increments of 1-3, 1-5 and maybe retain some quality. Also consider the size of the file that you are printing. When it is sent to the printer, it is converted and/or translated intoa format that the printer understands which causes the size of the file to increase 3-5 times depending on how detail the graphics are. Add more memory.

by mahdeekus

Is this only happening with one print device? Try installing the latest version of the print driver - it looks as if the print processing side of win printing is not 100%.

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