Tracy,

Have a look at MSKB #154170.

If that proves to be it please let me know and I will add it to the Bug List here because (you observe) it is occurrung in VFP8 too.

good luck

>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...