Apache OpenOffice (AOO) Bugzilla – Issue 78186
checkbox to disable printing of background-image
Last modified: 2013-02-07 22:42:47 UTC
Add checkbox to the printing-dialogue that allows the user to disable/enable the printing of the background in e.g. presentations. Background-images might look good in colour and on a big screen, yet in greyscale and maybe even as a handout they often just obscure the text, so the user should be able to disable them via a checkbox. Most users as in http://openoffice.blogs.com/openoffice/2005/11/printing_handou.html suggest to print as black and white, which is just a crude workaround and only works since most background have more than one colour.
It's a feature. Please have a look.
a very valuable option