Printing background colours in Chrome

There's a long long two years old thread at Chrome support, full of users complaining exactly how ludicrous is the lack of so basic function, as background printing, in Chrome.

http://www.google.com/support/forum/p/Chrome/thread?tid=17a4ac343580c8d3&hl=en

TWO Years!

My advice is to use Firefox or Opera until we get heard at Google.

There is now a chrome extension that injects -webkit-print-color-adjust:exact. I tested it with Chrome 23 and works fine.

https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/print-background-colors/gjecpgdgnlanljjdacjdeadjkocnnamk

CSS to allow chrome to print backgrounds:

See here:

https://stackoverflow.com/questions/5355117/print-css-backgrounds-in-safari-chrome/9339257#9339257