Vim different color scheme when printing

Question

Is there a way in _vimrc to set a different colorscheme to be used when printing files?

I like a dark background light text scheme on screen, but obviously that doesn't translate well to paper.

Edit: I can change the scheme manually before printing, then change it back after and it works fine. Just curious if there's a way to tell Vim to always use a specific scheme while printing.

This is what :hardcopy outputs:

Answer 1

How about something like

:command Hardcopy let colors_save = g:colors_name <Bar> colorscheme default <Bar> hardcopy <Bar> execute 'colorscheme' colors_save

Maybe throw in the 'bg' option. If you care about local variables, make it a function:

command Hardcopy call Hardcopy()
function! Hardcopy()
  let colors_save = g:colors_name
  colorscheme default
  hardcopy
  execute 'colorscheme' colors_save
endfun

Answer 2

The Vim plugin "Printer Dialog" allows to configure printing parameters, one of them is the colorscheme to be used for printing.

After installing and configuring "Printer Dialog" press \pd in the Vim window you want to print. The following "dialog" will open:

Beneath other things the syntax-highlighting for printing can be selected. See :help printer-dialog for further details. The variable g:prd_syntaxList defines the syntax-highlightings that can be selected. Default is

g:prd_syntaxList = "no,current,default,print_bw,zellner" 

See :help prd_syntaxList for details on how to setup this feature.