Blank page prints when you use "Print Target"

[Chris N Deuchar]

Quoting from knowledge base article
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/817454/en-us
"When you right-click a hyperlink on a Web page, and then click Print
Target, a blank page may print instead of the target document."

The knowledge base article referred to above does NOT fix the problem
we have with printing MSOffice and Adobe PDF 'targets' from Windows XP
- regardless of whether the 'browse in same window' checkbox is ticked
or not. This is for a variety of updates of XP and varying
implementations of IE6. I notice that the article has not been updated
since Dec 3rd 2004. This is very inconvenient for many of our
(University) users who have the need to print out whole folders of web
based documents. There is no problem for Win98SE users and so there is
little incentive to upgrade these machines.

I have thrown this at Microsoft support in the US who referred me to
MS-UK - who are in India(!)- who were hopeless, and clearly didn't
understand the problem - or even what I want them to do. Ie correct
the article and/or sort the problem

Any other ideas please?

Chris D

 

[Guest]

Thier is a microsoft printer(s) utility that you might use,its called
Print Migrator v3.1

 

[Chris N Deuchar]

Thier is a microsoft printer(s) utility that you might use,its called
Print Migrator v3.1

Thanks for the suggestion but I have looked at the description (pretty
naff on the MS site - but better elsewhere) and can't see how this
utility will do what I am asking?

Chris D

 

[Jim]

That's because Andrew e is an idiot. Read a few of his posts

 

[Hal Hostetler [MVP P/I]]

Here are some similar "blank page" printing problems with IE and their
fixes:

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/312446/en-us
Print preview is blank and you cannot print pages from Internet Explorer
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/271583/en-us
Web Page or E-mail Message Does Not Print or Preview Correctly in Internet
Explorer 5.5 and Outlook Express 5.5
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/272518/EN-US/
Only the Text at the Top of the Web Page Is Printed

Hal
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[Chris N Deuchar]

Here are some similar "blank page" printing problems with IE and their
fixes:

Thanks for these but they do not quite apply and don't seem to fix
things

Chris D