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  • CathWales
    CathWales Posts: 3,010 Forumite
    Part of the Furniture Combo Breaker I've been Money Tipped!
    Also meant to say that I used Zoom because i couldn't find the option in the menu for larger text. My OS is Vista.
  • KxMx
    KxMx Posts: 11,474 Forumite
    Part of the Furniture 10,000 Posts Name Dropper Photogenic
    I'd be no help with Firefox i'm afraid, try googling firefox + change text size, see if that gets you anywhere.
  • Kernel_Sanders
    Kernel_Sanders Posts: 3,617 Forumite
    Part of the Furniture 1,000 Posts Combo Breaker
    edited 10 December 2013 at 12:43AM
    images?q=tbn:ANd9GcR3Z_Yfj9Xyegb5n3TNUVNR3JwBQENAFFPeP0UvhGOQZPdLinE0
    Ectophile wrote: »
    Check your print driver settings. I have known them to have a setting where you can overprint cyan+magenta+yellow to simulate black if the black ink's run out.
    CathWales wrote: »
    But I've replaced the black ink and it's full. The old colour ink is still in there and the test print showed all the colours to be there, but the statement I needed to print, the text was quite small.
    :rotfl:
    Ectophile didn't even quote you so why would you think he wasn't trying to help the OP?
  • CathWales
    CathWales Posts: 3,010 Forumite
    Part of the Furniture Combo Breaker I've been Money Tipped!
    I switched to IE where I was able to change font size to 'largest'. It was only a slight improvement, but readable.

    PS: Sorry OP for 'thread hijack'.
  • Sooler
    Sooler Posts: 3,115 Forumite
    Part of the Furniture 1,000 Posts Combo Breaker
    CathWales wrote: »
    I didn't want to start a new thread

    ... Why not?
  • Sooler
    Sooler Posts: 3,115 Forumite
    Part of the Furniture 1,000 Posts Combo Breaker
    Take a screenshot of the barcode, paste it into MS Paint, use the fill tool to colour it in.
  • macman
    macman Posts: 53,129 Forumite
    Part of the Furniture 10,000 Posts Name Dropper
    DUTR wrote: »
    Good idea, although I thought purple was a combination of red and black.

    Red and blue mainly.
    No free lunch, and no free laptop ;)
  • WTFH
    WTFH Posts: 2,266 Forumite
    If it's a barcode, try to avoid red - many barcode readers use red light to scan, so a red barcode appears the same colour as a white background when you scan it.
    1. Have you tried to Google the answer?
    2. If you were in the other person's shoes, how would you react?
    3. Do you want a quick answer or better understanding?
  • CathWales wrote: »
    I switched to IE where I was able to change font size to 'largest'. It was only a slight improvement, but readable.

    PS: Sorry OP for 'thread hijack'.

    Don't worry. I'm glad you sorted your problem.
    SECRET OF SUCCESS IN LIFE:
    Patience, patience & patience.
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