Hi Tracy,

@ ... SAY is screen output command so it's affected by the color of the current output window. You can create the output window with color you need before printing.

DEFINE WINDOW wndDummy AT 0,0 SIZE 66,150 
ACTIVATE WINDOW wndDummy NOSHOW
* Printing code
DEACTIVATE WINDOW wndDummy 

>VFP7 and VFP8
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>Can anyone explain why this is happening and how I can prevent it? If I set my screen colors and print using @...say, the printout matches the screen colors and not black on white (this example prints black on shaded grey)???
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>set COLOR TO RGB(0,0,0,212,208,200)
>set PRINTER TO NAME GETPRINTER() && I used an HP4000 and OKI320 in testing
>set DEVICE TO print
>@1,10 say "test output.  this should be black on white.  no shading."
>set DEVICE TO screen
>set PRINTER to
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>What a Friday I am having...