How to eliminate dark or black background when printing white type?

Occasionally i want to print from the internet a page that has white type against a dark, even black, background.

This is a tremendous waste of ink. And is hard to read. I don't know why they do that.

How to elimate 'colored' or dark background and just print it as normal black print against a normal white background?

Macmini2, Dual Cores, 1 Processor; Bus Speed: 667 MHz ; 2GB Mem; L2 Cache:4 MB;

Posted on Apr 30, 2012 9:33 PM

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Apr 30, 2012 10:31 PM in response to thelnukus

Some ways I can think of -


• Go to System Preferences > Universal Access > Seeing and change "black on white" to "white on black". This will make everything very ugly and garish, but should reverse the colors on the webpage. Whether it then prints black on white, I don't know. Once done you can switch that prefs setting back.


• Take a screenshot of the webpage, then open that in an image handling program and invert the colors. Print.


• Select the text by dragging across it or doing a Select All (Command-A), then drag it onto the desktop or drag it or paste it into a TextEdit or Pages blank document. Fiddle with the text controls to get the text reset to plain text. Print.

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