Printing Web Pages

We seem to encounter more and more pages that fail to print
as our 
customers want.  The right side of the web page is not
printed.

Does anyone have a fairly easy solution for this problem?

Thanks for any help you can give.


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If it is as framed website, then click in the frame and
select "print
only current frame".  If it isnt framed, the easiest
thing, I've
found, is to adjust all the margins to .25.  It's a pain,
but it is
the only measure I've found to consistently work.  You
could always
change the page setup to Landscape, but that usually results
in
additional pages (i.e. what is 3 portraits is 5 landscapes).

We have the same problems.
~michele~

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First look for a "Printable View" (or some
similar) button on the web page. If 
there is none, try using the cursor to select the items you
want to print and 
then check the "Selection" button in the print
dialog box to print just what 
you had selected. If neither of these works, and the on
screen display all fits 
on one screen, you might try installing a utility such as
PrimoPDF that will 
allow you to print to a pdf file, which you can then open in
Adobe and print 
from there.

Bill Teschek
bteschekhampton.lib.nh.us

Charles Gambrell wrote:

> We seem to encounter more and more pages that fail to
print as our 
> customers want.  The right side of the web page is not
printed.
> 
> Does anyone have a fairly easy solution for this
problem?
> 
> Thanks for any help you can give.
> 
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Hi Charles,

If your customers are printing from your on-site computers,
I would 
recommend installing the Mozilla Firefox browser... it seems
to handle 
most (though not all) of those "off the right side of
the page" print 
jobs better than Internet Explorer.

If it is your own web pages that are not printing well, I
will second 
the suggestion of creating a print style sheet.  If you are
unfamiliar 
with CSS, there are many good resources out there.  One book
that has a 
good section on print style sheets, as well as many other
aspects of 
CSS, is "The CSS anthology : 101 essential tips,
tricks & hacks" by 
Rachel Andrew.  h
ttp://www.worldcatlibraries.org/wcpa/oclc/57144293 

Hope this helps!

Rick

Charles Gambrell wrote:
> We seem to encounter more and more pages that fail to
print as our 
> customers want.  The right side of the web page is not
printed.
>
> Does anyone have a fairly easy solution for this
problem?
>
> Thanks for any help you can give. 
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On Thu, 20 Apr 2006, Charles Gambrell wrote:

> We seem to encounter more and more pages that fail to
print as our customers
> want.  The right side of the web page is not printed.
>
> Does anyone have a fairly easy solution for this
problem?

Of all the printing problems I've tackled, that's the one
I haven't
conquered. I could've made millions...

The following focuses mostly on printing web pages, not
designing web
pages.

The short answer is that IE7 has made a good stab at fixing
the problem.
It is available in beta now, and is pretty stable. It solves
the problem
by defaulting to shrink-to-fit mode. Also, in Print Preview
it allows
dynamically moving the margins.

Apart from IE7, the only solution seems to be to set your
margins wide
enough, and/or set the orientation to landscape.

The problem as I understand it:

Many web pages are designed within a table (or frame)
structure, in which
the width of the table is FIXED, in order to make the
pictures (and/or
ads) look right. You can tell this is the case if you resize
your browser
window and the layout doesn't change.

The width of the table is in (screen) pixels. When IE goes
to print this,
it must scale this somehow to fit the page. My
experimentation suggests
that it is using a factor of 96 screen pixels per inch (of
paper). Thus a
CNN.COM news story with a 770 pixel table width prints just
over 8 inches
wide. True to form, I must switch to landscape to see it all
(including
the ads  ). This
96DPI figure does not seem to be configurable
anywhere.

I wish I had an answer for this...

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 > Does anyone have a fairly easy solution for this
problem?

If you have any tables or nested tables set their width to
100%, as 
<table width="100%" > rather than having
<table width="X px" > where X 
is a number.  This allows your web page to scale 100% of the
paper, but 
in case if you have big pictures or form filds like big text
boxes .. 
etc this doesn't help.

Vishwam

Vishwam Annam
Web Developer
Wright State University Libraries
120 Paul Laurence Dunbar Library
3640 Colonel Glenn Hwy.
Dayton, OH 45435
Office: 937-775-3262
FAX 937-775-2356

Charles Gambrell wrote:

> We seem to encounter more and more pages that fail to
print as our 
> customers want.  The right side of the web page is not
printed.
>
> Does anyone have a fairly easy solution for this
problem?
>
> Thanks for any help you can give.
>
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