How to match printing colour to Microsoft Word

Hi all,

I am having difficulty getting my Microsoft Word 2007 document to print in the same colours that I see on screen. Attached is an example of the colours I want to use. When it is printed via my Epson Artisan 720 multifunctional printer on Windows 7, the grey looks brown and the pink looks peach.

All the calibration settings in Word and Windows 7 are currently the default.
I have selected "Off - No colour adjustment" before printing in Word but it didn't work.

Do you have any suggestions on how this can be resolved?

Many thanks!

We have this issue on one of our commercial printers. When printing a Word document, it reprocesses the colours, resulting in output very different to the original document. The simplest workaround we've found is to convert the document to PDF and print the PDF file. The printer seems to accept the colours sent to it by PDFs, and doesn't do the reprocessing.

Hi Macropod,

Yeah, it's a problem with the conversion - we've used specific RGB colours in the Word documents. By "commercial printer", I mean it's a high volume printer designed for commercial work, but it belongs to us. It's only used by a small team, and everything except Word documents print correctly, so it's easier to get them to PDF the documents than to spend too much time with the calibration.

Phuag may find that PDF is the easy fix for them as well.

Larena