[mso] Re: Margins in Landscape printing

Hi Jonathan,

I like your succinct definition of the problem - thanks.

The small margin is needed on the right hand side of the print out (as 
viewed) because we are using pre-perforated paper. Fair enough, I can leave 
the required narrow margin set in the .doc and the bulk of the page will 
print in the correct position, but then the message "The margins of section 
1 are set outside . . ." is received and "Yes" must be pressed to proceed 
and then anything in the area between 0.17 cm and 1.28 cm is omitted.

John Grierson
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Jonathan Drawer" <jdrawer07@xxxxxxxxx>
To: <mso@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Sunday, January 11, 2009 12:57 AM
Subject: [mso] Re: Margins in Landscape printing


> As originally stated:
> John Grierson has a Lexmark printer. In Landscape mode in Word the default 
> minimum size for the Left edge margin is the same as that for the Top 
> margin in Portrait mode (0.17cm). The default minimum size for the Right 
> edge margin in Landscape is the same as that for the Bottom margin in 
> Portrait mode (1.28 cm). In Protrait mode the Top edge with the smaller 
> margin goes through the printer first and the Bottom edge with the larger 
> margin is last. Many printers have this characteristic of a larger default 
> margin at the Bottom to hold the paper. In Landscape mode the Right edge 
> with the larger margin goes through the printer first so the printer tries 
> to print too close to the left edge of the paper.
> In my HP Deskjet printer the default margins are as they should be for 
> printing the Top edge (smaller margin) first in Portrait mode and Right 
> edge (smaller margin) first in Landscape mode.
>
> Someone indicated that the default settings for the two orientations were 
> set in the device driver for the printer.
>
> So John was trying to correct the default margins for Landscape. 
> Contacting Lexmark resulted in the usual response that it is not the 
> printer problem, but is the application problem. His last attempt at 
> installing a new printer driver resulted in the Left edge being printed 
> first in Landscape mode. That sounds perculiar to me. Anyway, he wants the 
> right end to print first for some reason. I was asking why it was 
> important which side printed first. I assumed that the default margins 
> remained as before with the larger margin on the Right side for Landscape 
> which should be okay if the Left edge now goes through the printer first.
>
> Jonathan
>
> --- On Sat, 1/10/09, James S. Huggins (mso) <MicrosoftOffice@xxxxxxxxx> 
> wrote:
> From: James S. Huggins (mso) <MicrosoftOffice@xxxxxxxxx>
> Subject: [mso] Re: Margins in Landscape printing
> To: mso@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
> Date: Saturday, January 10, 2009, 7:05 PM
>
> ==============================May I ask why the right side has to print 
> first? Once printed it should not
> matter whether the left or right edge was first through the printer. The
> only difference would be that for one the page would have to be rotated to
> read it after printing.
> Jonathan
> ==============================
> The question has caused me to realize that despite all the discussion I do
> not understand what the problem is.
>
> Can someone tell me the problem?
>
> James S. Huggins
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