This bug affects printing post-scripts in black and white. From the documentation of ps-default-fs and ps-default-bg, we get: > This variable is used only when `ps-print-color-p' (which see) is neither nil > nor black-white. That does not match with the code .. these values affect the postscript export even when ps-print-color-p is set to 'black-white. On reviewing the code, the bug was that black-white was written as back-white (note the typo). I'll attach the patch in a followup email. In GNU Emacs 25.1.50.36 (x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu, GTK+ Version 2.24.23) of 2016-08-24 Repository revision: 70cfe9df957bd2f0699f62fe5e69176313f7c8f0 Windowing system distributor 'The X.Org Foundation', version 11.0.60900000 System Description: Red Hat Enterprise Linux Workstation release 6.6 (Santiago) Configured using: 'configure --with-modules --prefix=/home/kmodi/usr_local/apps/6/emacs/master 'CPPFLAGS=-fgnu89-inline -I/home/kmodi/usr_local/6/include -I/usr/include/freetype2 -I/usr/include' 'CFLAGS=-ggdb3 -O0' 'CXXFLAGS=-ggdb3 -O0' 'LDFLAGS=-L/home/kmodi/usr_local/6/lib -L/home/kmodi/usr_local/6/lib64 -ggdb3'' Configured features: XPM JPEG TIFF GIF PNG RSVG IMAGEMAGICK SOUND GPM DBUS GCONF GSETTINGS NOTIFY ACL LIBSELINUX GNUTLS LIBXML2 FREETYPE LIBOTF XFT ZLIB TOOLKIT_SCROLL_BARS GTK2 X11 MODULES Important settings: value of $LANG: en_US.UTF-8 value of $XMODIFIERS: @im=none locale-coding-system: utf-8-unix -- Kaushal Modi