Excel 2000: Printing in grayscale

[paulo33]

I am using excel 2000, office 2000, and an HP Laserjet 400 printer. I am trying to print grey chracters, but they come out black. I´ve already tried modyfing many settings, but I can´t make my characters come out grey. I already checked, and I can print a grey box, for example, but not grey characters.
The help desk people here at work are not vey good...
Can anybody help me out there?

Thanks in advance.

 

[JVFriederick]

Try cyan or some other color shade. Sometimes the specific printer driver converts your data stream.

I'm fairly certain that if you print a page with various colors your will find one that gives the desired grey characters.

 

[paulo33]

Already tried printing in 25 different colours, but it doesn´t work.
It seems very strange to me that, using other prorgrams, not excel, the printer prints in grayscale no problem. It seems to be a problem with excel itself.

thanks for the help anyway!