Have you ever purchased a TPT product that just doesn't seem to print correctly? There can be many reasons for resources not printing as they should, but I'm going to share a tip with you today that just may alleviate your printing woes.
As teachers, we are all about saving money and that definitely includes INK. Unfortunately, our best intentions could be the reason we are not seeing all the images of a product when printing.
I LOVE teacher toolboxes so the example I'm using is my black and white set of toolbox labels available in my TPT store. I get many questions on how to get these to print correctly.
As you can see, this set is printer friendly and looks great on colored cardstock. Although, the labels appear black and white, they contain images. For example, these labels contain dots and a border. They look black, but they are actually an image I created and inserted into this label pack. Therefore, the computer reads them as an image...which means when you select only black/white or grayscale in your printing window, the computer tells the printer to leave out the color--which leaves out the images. Images are created with a combination of color.
Here is an example of a printing window with black/white selected and below it is the print preview for the product.
As you can see, the dots and border disappear completely when selecting the print preview screen. This is exactly what you would see if you actually printed this page.
Even though you want the page in black and white, you must select color when printing or all of your images will disappear.
Now the dots and border are viewable in the print preview window. Yay! I hope this solves some of your printing frustrations and helps you get the result from your resource that you are looking for.
View this tutorial on YouTube by clicking the link below:
Printer Problems Solved
If your interested in these labels, you can check them out at my TPT store:
Teacher Toolbox Labels
Happy Printing!
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