We can not get text to print out in anything but black as night when printing b&w. I’m trying to get some greyed text to print out a date format suggestion on a notes generated form that is to be filled out by hand, greyed out so it’s obvious you should write over it, but no luck. Every shade of grey prints out solid black, even the lightest shade of blue! Very annoying. Printing in colour is not an option for us. Table backgrounds can come out in any shade of grey you like, but text is hard coded to solid black 
Solved by using an image instead of text
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