Problem Printing w PSP 7

My wife has something strange happening when she goes to print any image in 
PSP 7.

This is obvious printing to any color printer or even to a file. So it isn't 
printer dependent. Every image is printed ok, but with a pinkish background 
throught the page.

The be more specific, if the image is 500 x 500 pixels, that prints ok, but 
the rest of the page fills with pink.

What is happening? I don't see any settings in hte print dialogues tht can 
cause it. I said it happens on multiple printers, our konica minolta 
magicolor 2300DL,  a lexmark p2350 and we even tried printing to a PDF file 
directly. All will have the rest of hte page with the pink.

Any help is appreciated 

Dominic wrote:
> My wife has something strange happening when she goes to print
> any image in PSP 7.
>
> This is obvious printing to any color printer or even to a
> file. So it isn't printer dependent. Every image is printed
> ok, but with a pinkish background throught the page.
>
> The be more specific, if the image is 500 x 500 pixels, that
> prints ok, but the rest of the page fills with pink.
>
> What is happening? I don't see any settings in hte print
> dialogues tht can cause it. I said it happens on multiple
> printers, our konica minolta magicolor 2300DL,  a lexmark
> p2350 and we even tried printing to a PDF file directly. All
> will have the rest of hte page with the pink.

I am not sure what you mean by "the rest of the page." Is it the 
border surrounding the 500 x 500 pixel image? If I guessed right, a 
new image containing nothing but white would print a white rectangle 
surrounded by pink.

The usual culprits: File > Preferences > Color Management: make sure 
it is not enabled. And File > Preferences > Monitor Gamma: set all 
three channels to 1.00.

If those are not the cause, then I'd suspect Windows color 
management. Try saving an image from PSP in a JPG file and printing 
it with another app like Paint. How does that look?
-- 
Fred Hiltz,  fhiltz at yahoo dot com 

Thanks for the info Fred. We checked the preferences and they were set the 
way you stated.

To try and explain what I mean, let ssay the image she is printing measures 
3 x2 in, the rest of the 8 1/2 x 11 in page will be pink but the image will 
look ok other than the extra pink.

We tried printing an image in MS paint and it  printed ok with no extra pink 
so from what you said, I think we can assume it is not a Windows color 
management problem. Let me know if I am wrong.

Do you hve any other ideas?
"Fred Hiltz" <not@home.ca> wrote in message
news:461816a1$1_3@cnews...
>
> Dominic wrote:
>> My wife has something strange happening when she goes to print
>> any image in PSP 7.
>>
>> This is obvious printing to any color printer or even to a
>> file. So it isn't printer dependent. Every image is printed
>> ok, but with a pinkish background throught the page.
>>
>> The be more specific, if the image is 500 x 500 pixels, that
>> prints ok, but the rest of the page fills with pink.
>>
>> What is happening? I don't see any settings in hte print
>> dialogues tht can cause it. I said it happens on multiple
>> printers, our konica minolta magicolor 2300DL,  a lexmark
>> p2350 and we even tried printing to a PDF file directly. All
>> will have the rest of hte page with the pink.
>
> I am not sure what you mean by "the rest of the page." Is it the
> border surrounding the 500 x 500 pixel image? If I guessed right, a
> new image containing nothing but white would print a white rectangle
> surrounded by pink.
>
> The usual culprits: File > Preferences > Color Management: make sure
> it is not enabled. And File > Preferences > Monitor Gamma: set all
> three channels to 1.00.
>
> If those are not the cause, then I'd suspect Windows color
> management. Try saving an image from PSP in a JPG file and printing
> it with another app like Paint. How does that look?
> -- 
> Fred Hiltz,  fhiltz at yahoo dot com
>
> 

Dominic wrote:
> Thanks for the info Fred. We checked the preferences and they
> were set the way you stated.
>
> To try and explain what I mean, let ssay the image she is
> printing measures 3 x2 in, the rest of the 8 1/2 x 11 in page
> will be pink but the image will look ok other than the extra
> pink.
>
> We tried printing an image in MS paint and it  printed ok with
> no extra pink so from what you said, I think we can assume it
> is not a Windows color management problem. Let me know if I am
> wrong.
>
> Do you hve any other ideas?

Yup. You have narrowed it down nicely. Check File > Page Setup. In 
the resulting dialog, look in the Options block for a Background 
button. That could be where the pink comes from. Make sure it is set 
to pure white R,G,B = 255,255,255.

Second, in the Print dialog, click Properties and look around your 
printer driver settings for a background color, a watermark, an 
overlay, etc. that PSP honors but perhaps Paint does not.
-- 
Fred Hiltz,  fhiltz at yahoo dot com 

Thanks Fred, that fixed it, never would have thought of checking the page 
setup for a background color. I have no idea why any software manufacturer 
would even do that. It just seems to go against my thinking.

"Fred Hiltz" <not@home.ca> wrote in message
news:46199457$1_3@cnews...
>
> Dominic wrote:
>> Thanks for the info Fred. We checked the preferences and they
>> were set the way you stated.
>>
>> To try and explain what I mean, let ssay the image she is
>> printing measures 3 x2 in, the rest of the 8 1/2 x 11 in page
>> will be pink but the image will look ok other than the extra
>> pink.
>>
>> We tried printing an image in MS paint and it  printed ok with
>> no extra pink so from what you said, I think we can assume it
>> is not a Windows color management problem. Let me know if I am
>> wrong.
>>
>> Do you hve any other ideas?
>
> Yup. You have narrowed it down nicely. Check File > Page Setup. In
> the resulting dialog, look in the Options block for a Background
> button. That could be where the pink comes from. Make sure it is set
> to pure white R,G,B = 255,255,255.
>
> Second, in the Print dialog, click Properties and look around your
> printer driver settings for a background color, a watermark, an
> overlay, etc. that PSP honors but perhaps Paint does not.
> -- 
> Fred Hiltz,  fhiltz at yahoo dot com
>
>