I have the complete set (1886-1996) 0f NATIONAL GEOGRAPIC MAGAZINE on CDROM. However, I cannot print out those gorgeous photos-all I get are gray monotone pictures. Now, the onces I am interested are scanned Kodochrome color photos from the 1950’s. I have tried a color printer at work (high-resolution HP color printer), and the results are the same-no color. Can anybody help me with this?
Have you considered that your are (likely) attempting to violate a copyright?
That would be my guess, as well. Those photogs get paid for their work, and their work is copyrighted. Printing the pictures is as much theft as copying a CD.
Difficult to believe it wouldn’t be copyright violation. Probably the pictures are protected so that they come out greyscale on purpose.
Are you sure it isn’t the printer itself? Have you checked to see if the printer is set to print in color and not in black and white?
have you tried exploring the CD itself and seeing if they have the pictures nested somewhere within the cd?
Is it the National Geographic Photo Gallery CD-ROM? If so, the description indicates you should be able to print them:
A way around this is to hit the Print Screen key: that will send a screen shot to the clipboard. Then open Paint (or some other photo/art program) and paste the screenshot in. Then crop it to retain only the photo. Then print.
You could do that, but the resolution would be so abysmally low for anything but the smallest of prints.
What file format are the images?
If they are on-line and you have a link to one of them, we can try things for you.
Wait, are you scanning those in? Maybe you are set to monochrome mode in the scanning program. That’s easy to do by mistake. There are settings both b&w in the scanner and also the paint/photo package.