Office & productivity software forum: HP printer margins of section 1 set outside printable area?

STILL THE SAME PROBLEM!

Thanks chuckT for the right medicine but problem still the same problem.
I forgot to mention that i already tried the idea you provided. It worked for Epson printer but NOT for hp.
Where is that "section 1" in MS Word document anyway?
How can that "section 1" in MS Word be changed?
All readers, please help!

Thanks again for your detailed advice.
I tried all margins but it didn't change a thing!
I use only (1) page at a time to print only (1) custom size envelope or postcard.
I noticed the problem is conflict between MS-Word and HP-printer only when CUSTOM PAPER is selected.
All other default paper sizes do not poke that problem.
Epson printer do not cause that problem either.
WordPad don't have change PAPER SIZE under USER DEFINED. It therefore eliminates any PAPER SIZE conflict by using the printer's own software settings.
That explains the "margins" flag in MS-Word is a conflict between MS-Word margins and HP-printer's margings ONLY WHEN CUSTOM PAPER is selected!
I will try to forward this problem to HP to see if they will even listen.
The question HP would ask is WHY only me? Why nobody else has that problem?
That's why i came to the best forum on the planet to see if i can find other users that have encountered similar problems and how they resolved the issue.
I'll come back to post solution if only i can find it.
Thanks very much for your quick responses.

hello everyone, thanks for your suggestions.
Exactly as i had anticipated, hp support replied that my problem is unheard of!
I'm back therefore to fall on my fellow hp users to help me through this problem.
My printer is hp psc750 runing win98/me and MS-Word 2000. It has only one driver for win9x.
I use MS-Word 2000 to setup CUSTOM paper for printing custom envelopes, postcards, and pictures of diffirent sizes in the same way everyone does.
But why is CUSTOMIZE paper not working in MS-Word?
The printer's software works fine when no other application such as MS-word changes its settings. WordPad uses printer's own settings and it works fine but MS-word overrides printer settings. That's where i'm getting the problem.
Everybody uses MS-word to prints posters & custom size envelopes so please help!

xin-

I have a HP 3500 color laser and I get the exact same message. This is a printer I installed in september and I have the most current driver.

I created a new document using LETTER paper and I have no problems at all. I noted the margins for this document and changed to a custom paper size (8.75"x5.75"), verifing the margins are set exactly the same as Letter. When I print, I get the "Printer margins ..." message. I can tell it to print and the document looks fine.

Sorry I don't have a fix, but you are not alone

msc

Clearly the error message that "section 1 is set outside the printable area" is false. The change to A4 works, but why it should isn't clear. Thanks so much!

A thread running more than 7 years without a reliable solution can't possibly be about a technical feature that people should be able to learn how to use. It is about seriously flawed software. Apparently those responsible have become too cumbersome to fix it and too complacent to care about it. This is how monoliths crumble and fall, and how startups find opportunity to take their place. But how many more millions of man-hours must be wasted while we all wait for this agonizingly slow-motion transformation to take place?

We have the same problem xin. I am using HP F2480, i have problem with printing landscape. I've wasted papers and ink. If you have now the solution, please tell me.