is it possible to display color only in PDF viewer, not printed page?

Question

The ocgcolorlinks option to hyperref will let you have colorful links on the screen that are black (or more generally, the textcolor) when printed.

Is there a way to have coloured hyperref hyperlinks in the PDF, but have them print "as if" they were black? (yes there is!)

I'm wondering if there is a way to do similar tricks with other applications of color in LaTeX? For instance, I have in mind \pagecolor and \color.

tl;dr:

Is it possible to render a PDF in sepia tones? ... but have it print in black and white?

Note that the question How can I have text colored on screen and black on printing? does not address the question considered here but only considers colored links. — Joe Corneli, Dec 08 '15 at 22:25
This answer on Implementing full-page Screen-Only & Print-Only in PDF gives a proof of concept, but requires that the text be entered twice, which isn't suitable for day-to-day use. — Joe Corneli, Dec 08 '15 at 22:32
Use a b&w only printer? The Color/Desaturate option from Gimp (for example) will convert color to shades of gray. — John Kormylo, Dec 09 '15 at 03:49

score 0 · Accepted Answer · edited Apr 13 '17 at 12:35

Here's a useable work-around for the exact use case I had in mind, following answer from automatically inject code into preamble in cascading manner.

spdflatex

Make this executable.

#!/bin/bash

pdflatex -jobname=$1 \\RequirePackage{sepia} \\input{$1}

sepia.sty

Save this in ~/texmf/tex/latex/mystyles/

\RequirePackage[dvipsnames]{xcolor}
\definecolor{fondpaille}{cmyk}{0,0,0.1,0}    
\pagecolor{fondpaille!90!black}
\AtBeginDocument{\color{Sepia}}

Compile files with `spdflatex` for sepia tones, `pdflatex` for b/w.

is it possible to display color only in PDF viewer, not printed page?

tl;dr:

1 Answers1

spdflatex

sepia.sty

Compile files with `spdflatex` for sepia tones, `pdflatex` for b/w.

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is it possible to display color only in PDF viewer, not printed page?

tl;dr:

1 Answers1

spdflatex

sepia.sty

Compile files with spdflatex for sepia tones, pdflatex for b/w.

Linked

Compile files with `spdflatex` for sepia tones, `pdflatex` for b/w.