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Background Image Not Printed in Internet Explorer

Article ID: 135978

Article Last Modified on 12/5/2003

APPLIES TO

This article was previously published under Q135978

SYMPTOMS

When you print a Hypertext Markup Language (HTML) page that contains a background image in Internet Explorer, the background image is not printed.

CAUSE

The printing of background images is not supported in Internet Explorer.

RESOLUTION

Use either of the following methods:

  • You may be able to work around this behavior by copying the image from Internet Explorer to the clipboard. To do so, press ALT+PRINT SCREEN in Internet Explorer. Then, open any program that supports pasting bitmap images (such as Paint), paste the image into the program, and then print the image.
  • Obtain Microsoft Internet Explorer version 2.0. Internet Explorer 2.0 can print background images.

STATUS

This behavior no longer occurs in Microsoft Internet Explorer version 2.0.

Additional query words: 1.0

Keywords: KB135978


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