Print Restrictions

[Andrew J. Mutch]

Bess,

This won't work because the user can set the browser to use its own
colors, overriding the background color.

Andrew Mutch
Northville District Library
Northville, MI



On Wed, 29 Oct 1997, Bess Moffitt wrote:

> This may sound like a primitive solution, but I recently tried to print a
> page that had white lettering on a black background. Nothing showed up on
> the printed document. I was using a laserjet in the library. Color printers
> may be a different story.
> 
> Bess Moffitt
> 
> 
> 
> At 04:31 PM 10/28/97 -0800, you wrote:
> >We recently had a request from a faculty member who wishes to put out
> >course materials on the Internet but does not want them to be copied or
> >printed directly on a web browser. Although there is no way to stop someone
> >from copying an image of what is on the screen, the concern was that the
> >materials not be easily reproduced on paper. I am curious if anyone has run
> >into this type of request, and if so, did they come across any solutions ?
> >The only idea I can come up with is to use a Java applet as a viewer for
> >the material.
> >
> >art
> >--- 
> >Art Rhyno, Systems Librarian
> >Leddy Library, University of Windsor
> >Internet: arhyno at uwindsor.ca
> >Tel: (519) 253-4232, EXT. 3163
> >FAX: (519) 973-7076
> >WWW: <http://www.uwindsor.ca/library/leddy/people/art.html>
> >
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> Assistant Librarian
> San Francisco University High School
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