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IE6 Printer Problem

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by rirwin69

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I am running WIN98 with IE6. When on the web and trying to print the web page displayed, it prints with portions of the words cut off. I am printing to an HP laserjet 5/5M. I thought it may be a printer driver, but the same exact page prints fine with Netscape. All other programs also print fine. I can copy the web page into Word and it also prints fine.

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by thechas

This is a 'feature' of IE.

Netscape and Word scale the web page to fit the paper when printing.

IE does not.

Chas

by joseph moore

Yeah, Chas is right. IE does not wrap text or anything on a webpage when you print it.
Always do a File -> Print Preview to see if the page will come out OK or not before you print.
I print many things in Landscape when I print from IE.
But to be honest, I usually just copy from the IE window and paste into Word before I print. Just a heck of a lot easier.

by rirwin69

If this is a feature of IE6, then why would the same web page on a different computer using IE6, print correctly to the same printer.

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