I Need Some Help With Margins

[mike]

When I open a new document I set all the margins to Zero using Page
Setup. When I do this I get a missage saying the margins are no good
and would I like to fix them. I say Fix and they are changed as
follows: Top .05", Bottom .5", Left .25" and Right .25".

I now type data into the document that goes from margin to margin. Now
when I print the document I get another saying "the margins of section
1 are outside the printable area of the page. Do I want to continue?
Yes / No".
..

If I select No nothing happens and I am returned back to my document.

If I select Yes the document prints and seems to look complete.

If I adjust the Right margin from .25" to .26" and then print the
document i no longer get the message "the margins of section 1 are
outside the printable area of the page. Do I want to continue? Yes /
No".

Would anyone be able to explain to me what is happening here?

Thanks for any and all help.

 

[Charles Kenyon]

Few printers are able to print edge-to-edge. (Very few.) They need a place
on the paper for rollers to grab the paper that does not have ink or toner
on it. The non-printable area is set by the printer driver (software) and
varies from printer to printer.
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Charles Kenyon

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[JoAnn Paules [MSFT MVP]]

(Make sure the printer you want to use is set as the default printer.) Open
Notepad. File - Page Setup. Try changing your margins to 0". It will
automatically default to your printer's limitations.

 

[Stephen Glynn]

(Make sure the printer you want to use is set as the default printer.) Open
Notepad. File - Page Setup. Try changing your margins to 0". It will
automatically default to your printer's limitations.

Are you sure about that? I've just tried the experiment with Notepad
and it thinks my Epson C44's margins for A4 are 0.00mm all the way round
except for the bottom one, which it thinks is 0.01mm. That's not what
the Epson manual says! As you'll see from my discussion with Graham
Mayor in the thread 'Border Settings for A4', I've also recently tried
this with both Word and Open Office's Writer, both of which give me
different defaults, neither of which are the ones given for my printer
by Epson's online documentation (and therefore, I assume, contained
somewhere in the printer driver). Writer's approximation to Epson's
settings is a lot closer than is Word's.

Steve