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Printing Color Content in Black and White

Laserfiche Snapshot allows you to determine whether the images generated for a print job will be in color, grayscale, or black and white. Laserfiche Snapshot also provides a variety of filters that can be used when converting color content to black and white. These filters determine how black and white versions of color content are interpreted.

Note: The Disable Photo Quality option specifies that a filter should not be used. If you do not use a filter when converting images from color to black and white, your result will yield solid black blocks instead of black and white images.

Tip: Although Stucki is the slowest filter, it produces the highest quality conversion. If you are more concerned with speed than quality, use the Floyd-Steinberg filter.

To print color content in black and white

  1. Open the desired file in the appropriate Windows application.
  2. From the File menu, select Print.
  3. Check to make sure that Laserfiche Snapshot is selected in the Print dialog box.
  4. Depending on the program, click Preferences or Properties or Printer Properties. The ClosedPrinting Preferences or the ClosedLaserfiche Snapshot Properties dialog box will appear.

  5. Click the File Formats tab.
  6. Under Color Depth, make sure Monochrome is selected.
  7. Under Photo Quality, select the desired filter. If unsure which filter to select, select Stucki.
  8. Click OK.
  9. Click Print or OK to print a black and white version of the currently open file.
  10. After the document has printed, the ClosedLaserfiche Snapshot dialog box may appear, displaying the Laserfiche properties assigned to the document that will be created. Make changes, if any, and click OK.

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