Computer newbies forum: Printer cutting off right margin

You didn't tell, but it's normal.

The easiest solution is to set the page lay-out to landscape. Then it will fit. Webpages generally are optimized for the screen, not for printing. Some offer a printer-friendly version.

My new Canon IP4000 printer came with an IE add-on called 'easy web print' that shrinks the page to fit the paper.

Kees

Try using all zeros instead of actual margin data. The fields SHOULD auto-fill with the minimum margins allowed by the printer in use at the time. So, if you change your printer, and it has different minimum margins, you'll always be sure to have set the margins to something the printer "likes".

instead of changing the margins....scroll the mouse over everything you want to print and when it's all highlighted, click File, Print, and at that next window, put a dot in "selected" instead of ALL pages and it will only print what you want.

TONI

For some reason quite a few of the tutorials that I receive in Outlook Express, will not print correctly,
when you highlight the selection is always grayed out, and then when you print All- it only prints a very small portion of it on the right hand side- I have tried everything and cannot get them to print - they have graphics that are needed to complete your project
in these tutorials so copy and paste doesn't get me the graphics that I need. They are sent as .eml but open as a regular email when I click on them, I have an HP
7660 photosmart printer. I also have Windows Xp home edition and have all the latest windows updates,

Portrait to Landscape?
That's the problem...you have to remember to return to portrait. Not a big issue, but it is aggravating at times and can waste paper. Plus, the resulting formatting is really awkward at times.

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Copy and Paste?
The suggestion to copy and paste from the web to a word processor was OK, however, not all web pages let you copy the content, and more are going that route every day unfortunately (they don't understand that technique can severely compromise the ability of people with degraded vision to read the web pages. Third party view enhancing programs sometimes don't work with such websites).

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Special "scale for web-page" feature?
Most printer "preferences these days contain a "scaling" capability...it can be used for all sources, not just web-pages. It may be a special "scaling" feature, or it may show up as "fit to page" or it may be provided under both categories.

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Other Factors:
I've also discovered that this problem can occur when I use printer preference settings to auto-include header and footer info (for info like URL, page x of y, date, etc). For some reason, doing that SOMETIMES screws up ALL the margins...not just the top and bottom when viewing/printing web-pages. In addition, sometimes changing the web-page "view" text size makes an unpredictable difference.

I've been down for several months. When I got back up I had 400 e-mails to go through.

When I went to print something from the internet and the right margins were cut off! I remembered reading this forum along with an column written by Jim Coates in the Chicago Tribune dated November 26, 2005.

Although using landscape works in a punch it is not really a long range fix.

So I tried HELP! But no luck. So I went to the site of the maker of the printer:

http://h10025.www1.hp.com/ewfrf/wc/document?lc=en&lang=en&cc=us&docname=c00259913&dlc=en&product=59867&printable=yes&encodeUrl=true&#

"Solution three

To keep a portrait orientation, reduce the size of the font on the web site you wish to print. To do this, follow the steps below.
1. In Internet Explorer, click View, then Text Size.
2. In the Text Size menu choose a smaller text size.

Solution four

Change the page margins in Internet Explorer from .75 inch to the smallest setting allowed by your printer. For more information on minimum allowed margins, see the User's Guide that came with your printer.
1. Open Internet Explorer.
2. Click File, and then Page Setup.
3. In the Page Setup dialog box that displays, under Margins, change the right margin setting to the smallest margin allowed by you printer."

Although the text resizing works, it makes the screen to hard to read.

But resetting the margins to .50 WORKS!!!

HOPE THIS HELPS!!!

BET

I have a Dell Inspiron lap top. Windows Vista. Dell Inspiron 1545. Intel (R) Celeron (R) CPU
900 @2.20 GHZ, 2.19 GHZ, RAM 3.00 GB, 32 bit Operating System