62422 - An option to print with user's default colors instead of the page colors

Status: NEW

(Core :: Printing: Output, enhancement, P3)

Description

[ken lierman]

From Bugzilla Helper:
User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux 2.2.16 i686; en-US; m18) Gecko/20001208
BuildID:    2000120808

I've had this problem with ns6, and several versions of mozilla i've tried, and
finally got annoyed enough to look at it enough to log it.

Basically, the background of printed output seems to match the background of the
viewed web page, instead of being white.  For example, the main mozilla page is
gray with black text.  Printing this prints a gray background with black text.
This is annoying.  I'm not sure if this is intentional or not, but i'd think
you'd at least want an option to not print any background colors, images, etc.

Interrestingly, the first couple printing test cases print as i'd expect, black
text on a white page, even though they are displayed in mozilla as black text on
a gray background.  It seems that only slightly more complex pages exhibit this
issue.

Also, mozilla seems to ignore my setting grayscale when printing (at least
text).  Again on the main mozilla page, if i print with grayscale on, the
graphic at the top correctly prints in black/white, but the links print in color?!?!



Reproducible: Always
Steps to Reproduce:
1.go to mozilla.com
2.print with grayscale set.
3.

Actual Results:  printout is on a gray background, and the text links are in
color (blueish purple on my printer)

Expected Results:  white background, grayscale text.

Comment 1

[Boris Zbarsky [:bzbarsky]]

Bug 45793 covers links being printed in color in spite of printing grayscale.

The page is printed exactly as it is seen in the browser (with the page's
colors).  But it may make sense to add a "use my default colors for printing"
checkbox somewhere.  Changing summary, os -> all, severity -> enhancement,
confirming.

Comment 2

[dcone (gone)]

Setting as remind.. this is a enhancement we clearly want to look at and design 
into for a future release.

Comment 3

[Christopher Hoess (gone)]

REMIND is deprecated per bug 35839.

Comment 4

[Christopher Hoess (gone)]

->rods

Comment 5

[Richard James]

The best way to resolve this problem is to have a separate "Printing Colors"
sub-category under the Appearance category.  This will permit the user to view
the webpages in desired set of colors while printing the webpages in another
desired set of colors, if different.

This is especially critical for users who like to force all webpages to show in
black background with white fonts. 

Comment 6

[Chris Wesdorp]

I agree with Richard James, as i quote: "This is especially critical for users
who like to force all webpages to show in black background with white fonts. "

I remember that in old Netscape 4.x or maybe IE there was a checkbox in the
File->Page setup with the text: "Print black text". This may be another simple
option.

Comment 7

[Chris Wesdorp]

I remember that in old Netscape 4.x or maybe IE there was a checkbox in the
File->Page setup with the text: "Print black text". This may be another simple
option when the text is in a color that will be printed as gray.