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When I print a powerpoint, any of my text and backgrounds are distorted. I have printed this same document before on the same printer and have never had this issue. The transparent parts of the powerpoint are now BLACK and the white parts of my border are GRAY. Even the colors are not working properly. It gives me a muted form of the color rather than the actual blue it should be. If I save the slide as a JPEG it fixes the problem, however, to do that repeatedly for every thing I need to print as a teacher, it is not feasible. It also prints the image blurry as a JPEG. It has worked in the past and I'd never had issues with the printer. Now, I suddenly have problems anytime I print something with a transparent box. 

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