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Printing web pages
Why do web pages print with the right-hand edge missing? Over the years I've used many printers on many web pages and, recently, unless the page is laid out with all the text centred, the last word or fraction of a word (who knows?) is omitted down the right margin.
Can it be that all webpages are designed around American Letter page size, which is slightly wider than A4? I've just tried a new HP laser printer using 'ZoomSmart' (scaled to fit A4) which perfectly reduces an A3 Excel spreadsheet to A4 portrait size but which cannot tame a web page.
I, and several thousand others, would be very greatful for for your insight into this phenomenum.
Colin Benson
Agreed that it's a pain! Which is why I have always printed web pages in landscape on A4 - reduced to 2 pages per sheet if the printer can cope.
Alternatively if paper is not required why not just print to disk eg using something like Micrsoft's Journal Note Writer (or similar).
Posted by Ian | July 22, 2005 4:25 PM
Try using Opera 8, it scales the web page to fit correctly on the printed page.
Nick
Posted by Nick Elliott | July 22, 2005 4:28 PM
All recent Canon printers come with software that will automatically fit the web page to A4 paper, talk nicely to a Canon printer owner for a trial run :-)
Posted by Dan | July 22, 2005 10:26 PM
Simple, ditch IE and use Firefox.
Dick
Posted by Dick Pyett | July 22, 2005 11:58 PM
I have usually got around the problem of Web Pages not printing properly by altering the margins on the page setup screen of Explorer, even as low as 0.
Posted by J Hulme | July 23, 2005 5:54 PM
My new Epson printer came with "EPSON Web-To-Page" software which eliminates this problem. There is a launch button for the software sitting just below the address bar in IE.
Posted by Ken | July 25, 2005 11:36 AM
Epson 300 + printer not printing save web pages in word document
Posted by Kanchan | July 28, 2005 6:10 AM
Epson 300 + printer not printing
web pages saved as word document is not printing
Posted by Kanchan | July 28, 2005 6:12 AM
I use an add-on to IE called PrintPunk which fixes the problem.
Posted by Nigel | August 13, 2005 4:25 AM
I have an Epson stylus PHOTO RX420 printer dos,nt print the whole web page?, there is about 1inch missing on the righthand side of the page can anybody help me?.
Posted by B. Kirke | July 26, 2006 4:38 PM
My XEROX 6110 has a "Fit to Page" feature which sometimes works & sometimes does not when trying to print the same web page. Help from Xerox is pathetic as the people who reply appear unable (or unwilling) to actually read one's posts & send sensible replies. The "fit to page" feature XEROX supply may as well not be included in their software if it won't work reliably.
Posted by David | February 8, 2008 8:45 AM