Often you find a page with a dark background and light colored text. Internet Explorer will print it this way without any changes, but you can turn off this option. Firefox, however, provides more control over how the page prints.

Firefox

By default, Firefox doesn't print the background, but does print the text as defined. To force Firefox to print the background:

1. Click File
2. Click Page Setup
3. Click the Print Background (colors & images) check box (make sure check appears in box)
4. Click OK

1. Click Help
2. Click Help Contents
3. Search for header footer
4. Click Printing a web page
5. Click Margins and Header/ Footer

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Internet Explorer

To access the page setup options:

1. Click Print drop-down arrow
2. Click Page Setup

To learn the Header/Footer codes used in Internet Explorer Page Setup:

1. Click Help
2. Click Contents and Index
3. In the left pane click Printing and Saving Information
4. In the left pane click Print a webpage
5. In the right pane click Related Topics
6. In the right pane click Change how a webpage looks when it prints

To turn off the background in Internet Explorer, you must go to a different menu and uncheck the default setting:

1. Click Tools
2. Click Internet Options
3. Click the Advanced tab
4. Scroll to Printing
5. Click the Print background colors and images check box (make sure check does NOT appear in box)
6. Click OK

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