Policy

Turn on printing of background colors and images

Microsoft Windows

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Turn on printing of background colors and images
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Policy overview

Key metadata and intent for this policy.

User
Category
Windows Components > Internet Explorer > Internet Settings > Advanced settings > Printing
Supported on
At least Internet Explorer 7.0

This policy setting specifies whether Internet Explorer prints background colors and images when the user prints a webpage. Including background colors and images might reduce the speed at which a page is printed and the quality of the printing, depending on the capabilities of the printer. If you enable this policy setting, the printing of background colors and images is turned on. The user cannot turn it off. If you disable this policy setting, the printing of background colors and images is turned off. The user cannot turn it on. If you do not configure this policy setting, the user can turn on or turn off the printing of background colors and images.

Internal name
BackgroundColors
Policy ID
2bdd0547d9fe
Elements
0

Registry values

How enabled and disabled states update the registry.

ScopeRegistry locationTypeEnabled valueDisabled valueCopy
User
Path
Software\Policies\Microsoft\Internet Explorer\Main
Value name
Print_Background
REG_SZ
HKCU
yes
HKCU
no
Registry location
Type REG_SZ · User
Path
Software\Policies\Microsoft\Internet Explorer\Main
Value name
Print_Background
Hive
HKCU
Enabled value
yes
Disabled value
no

Policy elements

Inputs and configuration options exposed by this policy.

This policy has no additional user input fields.