We don’t generally recommend printing web page backgrounds or images because the colors can interfere with the text. But sometimes you may want to do exactly that to capture the colors, such as in printing a copy of web safe and named color charts for reference. Just keep in mind that the colors that print will most likely look different than what you see on the screen because most printers and monitors have not been calibrated to the same colors.

Our Color Charts are built by using background colors in table cells. The newer versions of both Internet Explorer and Netscape can print backgrounds but these settings are usually not activated. If you want to print web page or table background color or images, the easiest way to see what you will get is to check your Print Preview first. If you don’t see the color or images you want, follow the instructions below to set up your Browser to print the background.

Internet Explorer
IE typically is not set to print background color or images, including table cell colors. On IE’s Print Preview, our color charts will show as white table cells with black text. To get the table cells colored backgrounds to print, click on the browser’s Tools menu. Select Internet Options, then click on the Advanced tab. Scroll down to find the Printing heading and check the box called Print Background Colors and Images. This setting affects both page backgrounds and table cell backgrounds.