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by davoud

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I am having printing problem with a webpage that i have made. IE6 will not show the second page in the "print preview" and will not print and I just can't understand why?

Firefox shows all the pages but it seperates the logo and puts it on the first page without any text.

Print preview in Opera almost is fine other than a little cut at the end of the last page which is ignorable.

using an Epson Stylus CX6600 to print, everything is fine since it has a web-to-page option but what if somebody doesnot have this printer?

I have added a print.css specifying what to print what not and specifying the font-size etc. and have linked to it. No matter if I specify a fontsize or not, a print test shows no change in the font-size.

Any idea how to solve this would be appreciated.

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by relay12

Unfortunately some web pages just will not format properly. There are currently no browsers that do this 100% correctly. It's another reason to have multiple browsers installed. The last resort is cut and paste from browser into a word processor. MS IE and MS Word combination can work well, but sometimes overly complex pasting will crash MS WORD. Recently have been using "Nuke Anything Enhanced" extension for Firefox to remove objects from the displayed web page prior to printing. It gives you a right mouse click option "remove this object". For those 1% of pages that fail the above solution repeat the later two and split the page up into "chunks" sometime it is a specific piece of markup code you need to omit to make the problem go away.

I mostly use Firefox for printing and MS IE as the backup. Choice was based on being able to add a URI to the bottom of the page (using SAVEURI extension). Header and footer URI get truncated so they are useless in some pages. With the addition of these extensions I am happy about 95% of the time with Firefox print rendering.

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