Editing Printer Settings

Select the “Screen Printer Scheme and Font…“ item from the “Options“ menu.

This will display the “Colors, Lines & Symbols” dialog box from which any of the settings may be edited. For a full description of these options, which are the same as those for screen settings, see the related section on screen settings on Editing Screen Settings.

However, note that most modern printers are unable to print flood fill colors that would be required in order to see colored sea and land masses on the maps. Therefore, unless you own such a printer, the printer settings would normally contain white for both land and sea color, and contain colors only for the various lines (such as coastlines, borders, planetary lines, fonts etc.).

When you click on the Sea Color or Land Color buttons, Solar Maps will check your current printer to determine whether it is capable of flood fill, and if not, you will see a warning message to tell you so. In this case, you can still select non-white fill colors, but these colors will simply not appear when printed.

Also note that, in the eventuality that your printer is capable of flood fill, it is recommended that you choose only light colors anyway, in order to avoid using up large quantities of printer ink or toner.