document page length changes when printing on different printers

[Guest]

when i print a word document (word 2002 sp3) on my hp laserjet 4100n it is
quite often a different page length than when i print it on my hp laserjet
4050. the top or bottom margins appear to be changing. example--the last
line of text on page 14 printed on the 4100n becomes the first line of text
on page 15 when printed on the 4050. as a result the document is 43 pages
long when printed on the 4100n and 44 pages long when printed on the 4050.
why is this happening? i need the documents to look identical when printed
on either printer. thanks. bmac_007.

 

[Chuck]

Obviously something is different between the two.
DPI ?
Font size?
Printers not in same emulation mode?
Print as a graphic is not selected on both?
One prints using internal fonts and the other dos not?
Printer drivers calculate form length differently?
Printer margins are not the same- may be hardware or driver software, or the
combination.
You may be using some sort of family or universal driver that acts
differently between the two printers.

This actually is an old problem that started with the dot matrix printers
and win 3.x
A combinaton of dpi resolution and the way the drivers calculated printable
form length (rounding and truncation errors)
Resulted in the same sort of error.
You might need to manually limit the number of lines per page, so that a
page break occurs before the page accumulates the number of lines to toggle
a form feed.

 

[Willem II]

"bmac_007" <[email protected]> schreef in bericht
| when i print a word document (word 2002 sp3) on my hp laserjet 4100n it is
| quite often a different page length than when i print it on my hp laserjet
| 4050. the top or bottom margins appear to be changing. example--the last
| line of text on page 14 printed on the 4100n becomes the first line of
text
| on page 15 when printed on the 4050. as a result the document is 43 pages
| long when printed on the 4100n and 44 pages long when printed on the 4050.
| why is this happening? i need the documents to look identical when
printed
| on either printer. thanks. bmac_007.

I used this trick for different printers, to get the same result:
"Print" the document to a PDF-file, e.g. with the program PDF995.
Then print the so-created PDF-document with your real printer(s).

Bye, Willem