Hi Lee,
Does this page help:
http://www.mvps.org/dmcritchie/excel...lors_print.htm

Possible printer out of Color Ink
Don't know if you have a draft mode and what it would do..

related but a different problem:
Colors are only missing on monitor, due to High Contrast Accessibility option.
http://support.microsoft.com/?id=320531
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HTH,
David McRitchie, Microsoft MVP - Excel [site changed Nov. 2001]
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"Vital Spark" wrote in message ...
Lee there r so many places to look best if you give us an idea what printer.
You may have something in printer properties set wrong. It may not be Excel's
fault
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Vital Spark


"Lee" wrote:

Printing in black and white only when the workbook has colored background and colored letters and numbers. The "Print in black
and white is not checked"