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[Guest]

Hi
I am having trouble when printing. Recently an A4 print out occupies the
top left quarter of the page and the font is very small making it difficult
to read. I have untill now been successfully using a HP Deskjet 840C and I
have made no changes. I am unsure whether the problem is windows or printer
based. I would be grateful if somebody could point me in the right
direction. Thank you.

 

[Elmo]

Hi
I am having trouble when printing. Recently an A4 print out occupies the
top left quarter of the page and the font is very small making it difficult
to read. I have untill now been successfully using a HP Deskjet 840C and I
have made no changes. I am unsure whether the problem is windows or printer
based. I would be grateful if somebody could point me in the right
direction. Thank you.

What program are you printing from when this happens, OE, IE, something
else? Have you tried changing the printer properties just before the print?

http://groups.google.com/groups/search?q="small+printout"&qt_s=Search

 

[Guest]

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Militaryprovost

What program are you printing from when this happens, OE, IE, something
else? Have you tried changing the printer properties just before the print?

http://groups.google.com/groups/search?q="small+printout"&qt_s=Search

 

[Elmo]

Thank you for your reply. It occurs in both IE and Mozilla Firefox.
If I go into "Print Preview" before printing and change the size to
125% I get a normal page filling A4. All remains well in "Word"

A Google Groups search netted this:

Click Tools, Internet Options, Ignore font sizes specified on Web pages.

But there doesn't seem to be a real fix from what I've read. You can
make printing at 125% the default in many programs by changing the
printer preferences in the Control Panel, but that may mess with other
software printouts. I had a similar problem with some software, but my
HP 1315 has an option to "Scale to fit". If you have that option, it
could help in most printouts.

There may be software that does this for you too. Ah, here's one called
PrintPunk (for IE6 only, I believe):

http://fit-print.qarchive.org/

PrintPunk is a plug-in toolbar for Internet Explorer 6 that
automatically fits the webpage to the printer page. Just press one
button and a print preview window will appear with the web page
automatically resized to fit the printer page. You can also enlarge or
shrink the web page on the printed page to achieve any size of printing
you desire double sided, save paper, batch tif, batch jpg, free printing
software, automated print, ftp printing

http://printpunk.jafasoft-r-n-n.qarchive.org/

 

[Guest]

Thank you for your help. I will take some time to explore these avenues and
in the meantime I will use "scale to fit" as it is an option.