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# Musical Instruments: Pictures Do Not Print in Color

Article ID: 124943

Article Last Modified on 11/8/2001

APPLIES TO

- Microsoft Musical Instruments 1.0

This article was previously published under Q124943

## SYMPTOMS

The print command in Musical Instruments results in a black and white image, even though the printer you are using supports color.
If you copy the image into another application, it still prints in gray scale only.

## CAUSE

The pictures in Musical Instruments are Device Independent Bitmap (.Dib) images. Some printers will not print these images in color.

## RESOLUTION

Use one of the following methods to print color pictures from Microsoft Musical Instruments.

### Method 1

If you have a graphics program that directly supports .Dib images, you may be able to print in color by copying the image to the Windows Clipboard, then pasting it into a graphics program. In this case, the graphics program assumes control of printing.
To copy the Musical Instruments picture, on the menu bar click Options, and then click Copy. To Paste the picture into a graphics program, refer to the documentation for that program.

### Method 2

To paste color pictures from Musical Instruments into programs that understand Device Independent Bitmaps (for example, Microsoft Word for Windows, version 6.0) copy the screen to the clipboard using the following steps:

1. Locate the picture in Musical Instruments you want to print.
2. Press and hold down the ALT key while you press the PRINT SCREEN key (ALT+PRINT SCREEN).
3. Start the destination program and paste the picture into a document. For program-specific pasting instructions, see the documentation that came with the application.

NOTE: The Microsoft Windows 3.x Write and Paintbrush programs and the Microsoft Windows 95 Paint program do not support the printing of color .Dib pictures pasted from Musical Instruments.

## MORE INFORMATION

According to the Musical Instruments Readme.txt file, "you should be able to print gray scale images." It also states that printing in color is only "possible." Although Windows 3.x Write and Paintbrush, and Windows 95 Paint will not print these images in color. Other graphics programs may be able to paste the image and print in color.

Additional query words: mmtitles .DIB

Keywords: KB124943