ActionScript 2.0 :: Set Alpha To 0 For Printing?

I have a game I'm adding a print button to, for users to print their score at the end of the game. The problem is, is that the printing make some of the buttons look weird, for some reason (color is missing, a white box around the button, that should be empty/transparent). This is the script I'm using to print:

Code:
printButton.onPress = function() {
print(drawingArea, "bframe")
}

I've tried a number of ways of making it so the buttons are seen normally, even tracing them as bitmap, but it makes everything lock up when I try to print that way and nothing else seems to work. So I want to temporarily make the buttons invisible, while it's printing, and then go back to vissible once it's done.It's easy enough setting the button alpha to 0, with

Code:
printButton.onPress = function() {
buttonInstanceName._alpha=0;

and then the script to print; it makes it invisible just before it prints, but what I need is way to reset the alpha to 100 once it's done printing.