Choosing the right colors

Let's say that most of the business' reports are printed on a grayscale printer. This recipe will highlight the importance of choosing the right colors when reports are meant for printing.

Getting ready

We will use the report used in all the previous recipes for this recipe.

How to do it...

We want to examine the effect of the colors used on the printable reports. To do this, perform the following steps:

  1. Open the report in Report Studio. Select the list column titles.
  2. From Properties, open the Background Color dialog. Go to the Web Safe Colors tab.
  3. Select the #CC99FF color (sixth column, tenth row).
  4. Now select the product line footer (sub total) row and set its background color to #CCFF33 (thirteenth column, tenth row).
  5. Run the ...

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