Fun, free printable coloring pages for kids to print and color

We’ve designed our coloring pages so they’ll automatically print without any ads, our logo, our left side navigation bar or anything extra. Just click on the coloring picture and it will open by itself in a new window, then you can print it easily.

But if you do have trouble printing any of our coloring images, please check the list of possible printing problems below for the one that most closely describes the trouble you’re having.

If this still doesn’t solve your problem, please contact us.

1. The coloring picture doesn’t print at all or only part of it prints out
2. I don’t see a picture on my computer screen
3. My printer doesn’t print at all
4. The coloring page prints out on more than one sheet of paper; one side of the page gets cut off when printing; or the image prints out too small
5. How do I get rid of the extra words (i.e. date, web address, etc.) at the top and/or bottom of my printed page?
6. I’ve tried everything and nothing works. Help!
7. How can I tell what type of browser I have and what version it is?

1. The page doesn’t print at all or only part of it prints out
Some times, computers and the Internet experience glitches that are fixed easily. Hopefully, that’s all that is happening here. Listed below are a few quick fixes for these glitches, in order of quickness and simplicity. Try the first one first; if that doesn’t fix the problem, try the next one, and so on until you’ve tried them all. If you’re still having trouble, please review the rest of the items on this help page for a possible solution.

If the other items on this help page still don’t work, please contact us.

Quick Fixes:

A. Refresh/reload your browser.
B. If that doesn’t work, bookmark (or save to your favorites) the coloring page or pages you want to print, close/exit your browser, wait a few moments, then open your browser again.
C. If that doesn’t work, try shutting off your printer, wait a few moments, then turn it on again.
D. If that doesn’t work, close/exit your browser again and restart your computer.

If you’ve followed the list above and your printer still won’t print out the picture, you may need to set it to allow background printing. In Internet Explorer, click “Tools” from the menu and choose “Internet Options.” When the dialog box appears, click on the “Advanced” tab in the upper right-hand corner. Scroll down until you find “Printing,” click on the box “Print background colors and images,” then click the button “OK.”

In Firefox, click the “File” menu and choose “Page Setup.” Click on the box “Print Background (colors & images),” then click the button “OK.”

But be careful with this option: it’s a little tricky and it might print out the colorful background you see on our pages, wasting your paper. If it does that, go back to the option using the directions above, and turn it off.

One final note: the coloring pictures on Coloring.US.com are black and white. Some printers require you to specify that you are printing black and white pages, or “grayscale” (black, white and gray, as opposed to color). You may be able to change this option by going to the “File” menu, choosing “Print,” clicking the “Properties” or “Preferences” button, and look for this option at that point. If none of the above works for you, please contact us.

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2. I don’t see a picture on my computer screen
This could be happening because you have disabled images in your browser.

To enable images in Internet Explorer, click “Tools” from the menu and choose “Internet Options.” When the dialog box appears, click on the “Advanced” tab in the upper right-hand corner. Scroll down until you find “Multimedia,” click on the box “Show pictures,” then click the button “OK.” If that doesn’t work, try visiting Microsoft’s help page.

To enable images in Firefox, click “Tools” from the menu and choose “Options.” When the dialog box appears, click on the “Content” icon at the top of the dialog box. Click on the box “Load images automatically,” then click the button “OK.”

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3. My printer doesn’t print at all
If your printer doesn’t print at all (i.e., nothing happens or it won’t even give you a blank page), there could any of a number of problems, most of which are beyond the scope of this website. You should check the documentation that came with your printer, or the manufacturer’s website, for more information.

Nevertheless, there are a few things you could check first just to be sure:

A. Make sure the printer is plugged into an electrical outlet and turned on.
B. Make sure the printer is connected to your computer.
C. Make sure your printer has toner, or ink.
D. Make sure your printer has paper.
E. Make sure your computer has the appropriate driver installed for your printer. The “driver” is the software your computer needs so it can properly recognize and operate your printer.

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4. The coloring page prints out on more than one sheet of paper; one side of the page gets cut off when printing; or the image prints out too small
What’s happening here is that the image is larger (or smaller) than the area your printer prints on. Fixing this involves resetting your browser so the image fits properly on the page.

In the “File” menu on your browser both Internet Explorer and Firefox), choose “Print Preview.” A new window should open; in that window you will see what the page will actually look like when you print it.

The next step is to resize the picture properly. This will be slightly different, depending on which browser you use (if you’re not sure, check out the topic “How can I tell what type of browser I have and what version it is?” below).

In Internet Explorer, you will see a pulldown menu that says “Shrink To Fit” or it may display a percentage (30%, 50%, 60%, etc.). Try different settings until you see the image fill up no more than one page in the preview area, without any edges being cut off.

In Firefox, you will see a pulldown menu labelled “Scale.” As with Internet Explorer, try different settings until you see the image fill up no more than one page in the preview area, without any edges being cut off.

Using your browser’s “Print Preview” feature has the added benefit of letting you see how the page will look before printing, so you can set it to look how you want without having to waste any paper.

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5. How do I get rid of the extra words (i.e. date, web address, etc.) at the top and/or bottom of my printed page?
First, you need to open up your browser’s “Print Preview” (as explained in a previous step). Go to the “File” menu, select “Print Preview,” and a new window will open up.

In Internet Explorer, click “Page Setup.” This may actually be a small picture, or icon, of a wheel or sprocket; hold your mouse cursor over the icon and wait until you see a small popup description that says “Page Setup” to be sure. A dialog box will open up. Delete everything you see in the “Header” and “Footer” boxes then click “OK.” Please note once you do this in Internet Explorer it will be difficult to go back to having the date and information print on other pages you may wish to print in the future, so be sure to think about it before you do it.

In Firefox, open “Print Preview” as mentioned earlier in this step. Next, click the “Page Setup” button. In the dialog box that appears, click the “Margins & Header/Footer” tab. You will see six pulldown menus; make sure to choose the “–blank–” option in each one.

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6. I’ve tried everything and nothing works. Help!
If you’ve tried everything, your child desperately wants to color the coloring page you’ve found on Coloring.US.com, and nothing works, fear not!

As a second to last resort, you can copy and paste the picture into a word processing program (like Microsoft Word), or save it to your computer and insert it into a word processing program. Copying and pasting is a little faster and easier but it might not work in every case. First, open up your word processing program.

Next, right click on the actual image itself and in Internet Explorer, choose “Copy;” In Firefox, choose “Copy Image.”

Now, go to your word processing program. Open a new blank document and click somewhere on the new document. Next, go to the “Edit” menu and choose “Paste.” That should paste the image onto the page. At this point, you should be able to resize the image to fit the page, then you can print it.

If copying and pasting doesn’t work, you can save the image to your computer, then insert it later into a new document in your word processing program. To save the image, right click the picture itself and in Internet Explorer choose “Save Picture As;” in Firefox choose “Save Image As.” Make sure you save it somewhere on your computer where you can find it easily!

If you’ve tried the solutions offered above and you continue to have this problem, as a last resort you can contact us and we’ll do what we can to help you.

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7. How can I tell what type of browser I have and what version it is?
Go to your browser’s “Help” menu. There should be an option labeled “About…” with the name of the browser (examples: About Internet Explorer, About Mozilla Firefox). Choose this option.

A dialog box will appear which will display the name of the browser and the exact version (which is expressed as a bunch of numbers with dots, such as “2.0.0.14,” for example).

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