diff --git a/ChangeLog b/ChangeLog
index c6973bfe..d451b6bb 100644
--- a/ChangeLog
+++ b/ChangeLog
@@ -7,6 +7,9 @@
    data/filetypes.common:
    Add filetypes.common fold_symbol_highlight color setting.
    Add API macro foreach_range().
+ * src/printing.c, doc/geany.txt, doc/geany.html:
+   Always use white background color when printing (except for text
+   with a white foreground) to save ink (should fix #2968998).
 
 
 2010-06-30  Nick Treleaven  <nick(dot)treleaven(at)btinternet(dot)com>
diff --git a/doc/geany.html b/doc/geany.html
index ecd3a315..2f34e691 100644
--- a/doc/geany.html
+++ b/doc/geany.html
@@ -6,7 +6,7 @@
 <meta name="generator" content="Docutils 0.4: http://docutils.sourceforge.net/" />
 <title>Geany</title>
 <meta name="authors" content="Enrico Tröger  Nick Treleaven  Frank Lanitz" />
-<meta name="date" content="2010-06-29" />
+<meta name="date" content="2010-07-01" />
 <style type="text/css">
 
 /*
@@ -139,7 +139,7 @@ Stylesheet for Geany's documentation based on a version of John Gabriele.
 <br />Nick Treleaven
 <br />Frank Lanitz</td></tr>
 <tr><th class="docinfo-name">Date:</th>
-<td>2010-06-29</td></tr>
+<td>2010-07-01</td></tr>
 <tr><th class="docinfo-name">Version:</th>
 <td>0.20</td></tr>
 </tbody>
@@ -3052,6 +3052,12 @@ older format configuration files.</p>
 <p>Since Geany 0.13 there has been printing support using GTK's printing API.
 The printed page(s) will look nearly the same as on your screen in Geany.
 Additionally, there are some options to modify the printed page(s).</p>
+<div class="note">
+<p class="first admonition-title">Note</p>
+<p class="last">The background text color is set to white, except for text with
+a white foreground. This allows dark color schemes to save ink
+when printing.</p>
+</div>
 <p>You can define whether to print line numbers, page numbers at the bottom of
 each page and whether to print a page header on each page. This header
 contains the filename of the printed document, the current page number and
@@ -6146,7 +6152,7 @@ USE OR PERFORMANCE OF THIS SOFTWARE.</p>
 <div class="footer">
 <hr class="footer" />
 <a class="reference" href="geany.txt">View document source</a>.
-Generated on: 2010-07-01 14:28 UTC.
+Generated on: 2010-07-01 16:16 UTC.
 Generated by <a class="reference" href="http://docutils.sourceforge.net/">Docutils</a> from <a class="reference" href="http://docutils.sourceforge.net/rst.html">reStructuredText</a> source.
 
 </div>
diff --git a/doc/geany.txt b/doc/geany.txt
index a8b6c5ec..9f5ddebc 100644
--- a/doc/geany.txt
+++ b/doc/geany.txt
@@ -2784,6 +2784,11 @@ Since Geany 0.13 there has been printing support using GTK's printing API.
 The printed page(s) will look nearly the same as on your screen in Geany.
 Additionally, there are some options to modify the printed page(s).
 
+.. note::
+    The background text color is set to white, except for text with
+    a white foreground. This allows dark color schemes to save ink
+    when printing.
+
 You can define whether to print line numbers, page numbers at the bottom of
 each page and whether to print a page header on each page. This header
 contains the filename of the printed document, the current page number and
diff --git a/src/printing.c b/src/printing.c
index 7b6aec19..00bce33f 100644
--- a/src/printing.c
+++ b/src/printing.c
@@ -491,6 +491,9 @@ static void begin_print(GtkPrintOperation *operation, GtkPrintContext *context,
 			dinfo->styles[i][BACK] = ROTATE_RGB(scintilla_send_message(
 				dinfo->doc->editor->sci, SCI_STYLEGETBACK, i, 0));
 		}
+		/* use white background color unless foreground is white to save ink */
+		if (dinfo->styles[i][FORE] != 0xffffff)
+			dinfo->styles[i][BACK] = 0xffffff;
 		dinfo->styles[i][BOLD] =
 			scintilla_send_message(dinfo->doc->editor->sci, SCI_STYLEGETBOLD, i, 0);
 		dinfo->styles[i][ITALIC] =