Printing descendant chart

[Loretta Kuehn]

I have printed a descendant chart and it has come out "faded" or lighter than colors shown. Is this because of some formatting issue such as align to front, align to back, etc.? I can't figure it out and use up my printer's color cartridge very quickly. Help.

[genealogist.lily]

Re: Printing descendant chart

I have printed a descendant chart and it has come out "faded" or lighter than colors shown. Is this because of some formatting issue such as align to front, align to back, etc.? I can't figure it out and use up my printer's color cartridge very quickly. Help.

It sounds like you need to adjust your printer's print settings. There are many kinds of printers but when I select "print" I get a choice-box for number of pages and number of copies etc. There is also a box called Layout > choose Print Settings > and I can choose between Normal and Vivid. "Normal" prints with less ink and is great for a creating a draft or proofreading copy. "Vivid" will print with the full colour. Thrash around in your print box and look for something that offers this sort of choice for your printer. Hope this helps ~ Lily

[ttl]

Re: Printing descendant chart

I would second Lily's suggestion that something about your printer settings or printer itself is where you should look. I can't think of anything about Reunion that would result in a print that looks significantly different than the on-screen appearance as you've described.

Can you print an image from another application such as Preview and get the results you expect? Or does that come out light too?

[Loretta Kuehn]

Re: Printing descendant chart

I would second Lily's suggestion that something about your printer settings or printer itself is where you should look. I can't think of anything about Reunion that would result in a print that looks significantly different than the on-screen appearance as you've described.

Can you print an image from another application such as Preview and get the results you expect? Or does that come out light too?

I have played with my printer settings, but I don't think that is the problem. I printed the descendant chart in question and it still came out light. I printed other charts before and after with the same formatting and they are OK.

On the descendant chart in question, I had multiple spouses and got a little creative to get the result I wanted. I tried it several different ways: 1) create source person with first spouse + children, create source person with second spouse + children and "merged" the two, or copied the second chart and pasted into the first. (2) I created a chart using the father and mother, deleting the other siblings, but then still had the source couple. I moved the source couple to another page and basically making the sibling with multiple spouses the source couple, changing the generation number and color of the box according.

I don't know, I have tried so many things. I think my chart is faded because there is something "hiding" behind it. Frustrating - don't know what to do from here. I have checked other posts relating to multiple spouses in Reunion Talk and tried to start over and create a new descendant chart. Don't know what to do with that "new source" box. Loretta

[ttl]

Re: Printing descendant chart

If you want to mail me the chart at ttl at familygraphics point com, I'd be happy to take a look at it for you. Won't be able to respond till late tonight though.