Page setup

[john.bax]

IE6 keeps reverting to a page setup that I don't want - letter,
landscape - when what I want is A4 - portrait. So I change the
settings, but next time I open IE6 it has reverted to letter,
landscape again.

I am told that IE6 is supposed to get its printer settings from the
print driver each time a new window opens. Which means that it should
automatically copy the default page setup on my printer. But this is
not happening. In fact, the opposite is happening. Each time I open
IE6, the default settings on my printer driver change. Needless to
say this is very inconvenient.

What is happening? What can I do about it?

John Baxendale

 

[Jan Il]

Hi John

As the default paper size setting is governed by the printer not by IE, try
the following and see if it helps:

Click Start>Settings>Printers
Right click the default printer
Click printer Preferences in the popup menu
Click Advanced tab and change paper size
Click ok, and OK out
Reboot

Hope this helps

Jan
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[Jan Il]

Hi John

One other suggestion is to update your printer driver. You should be able to
find the update driver on the website of the company that makes the printer.

Hope this helps

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[relay12]

IE6 page setup

FYI - I have seen this behaviour on XP PRO SP1 and SP2 systems. It seems to be independent of what type of printers you have (seen with cannon or brother or pseudo pdf995 printer drivers and laser or inkjets), and connection type (ie network, parallel, usb). The IE6 page setup option ignores user changes. This causes problems with Outlook express and IE6 printing. All other installed application behave correctly (including Firefox browser) and read settings from the installed print driver without issue. Therefore it seem something odd with IE6 on some systems. Symptoms are IE6 margins reset to zero, paper size stuck on letter, and/or orientation stuck on portrait. I have not seen any reports of this with IE7 so far.

Note: if you go to IE6 print preview and set margins, head and footer it prints correctly for only that print. The setting will not be saved. Outlook express has no preview option so IE6 margin of zero produces print missing left hand side 2-3 characters on each line.

None of the suggestions from a google search that I have seen to date solve this. Please dont suggest wiping the OS or going win7 that is a big effort for such a small defect. After all you dont replace an entire car engine because of a dirty spark plug