[mso] Re: Margins in Landscape printing

  • From: "David Smart" <smartware@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
  • To: <mso@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
  • Date: Fri, 2 Jan 2009 07:59:53 +1100

Also check your printer settings.  IIRC it is more normal for the left to be
the top in landscape.  There might be a way of getting the printer to
reverse this.

(I can't check at the moment, my printer is about 300 km away from the house
I'm for the next couple of days.)

Regards, Dave S

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "John Grierson" <griersoft@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
To: <mso@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Friday, January 02, 2009 4:45 AM
Subject: [mso] Re: Margins in Landscape printing


> Thanks for that Dian. Unfortunately I have got the latest driver - but I
> will let Lexmark know about this
>
> John Grierson
> ----- Original Message ----- 
> From: "Dian Chapman" <dian@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> To: <mso@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Sent: Thursday, January 01, 2009 4:38 PM
> Subject: [mso] Re: Margins in Landscape printing
>
>
>> You may want to check and update your print driver. Word gets it's "data"
>> from the driver installed for the printer you have. So "Word" didn't
>> reverse
>> anything...the data being received to Word is apparently incorrect. I.e.,
>> the programmers who wrote the code for the printer > Word
>> connection...messed up!
>>
>> Go to the web site for your printer and see if there is a new version for
>> your printer. Chances are someone else discovered the problem and they
>> fixed
>> it in an update. Download the NEWEST version of the print driver
>> available
>> for your particular printer. Install it and give it another shot.
>>
>> Dian D. Chapman
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>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: mso-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:mso-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On
>> Behalf
>> Of John Grierson
>> Sent: Thursday, January 01, 2009 9:32 AM
>> To: mso@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
>> Subject: [mso] Margins in Landscape printing
>>
>> I have noticed an anomaly (I think!) in the setting of margins for
>> landscape
>> printing.
>> Using Portrait and Page Setup, deleting all margins and allowing Word to
>> set
>> the minimums I get Top .17cm Bottom 1.28cm
>>
>> Use Landscape in the same way Left .17cm Right 1.28cm
>>
>> Problem is that the leading edge of the paper is Top in Portrait and
>> Right
>> in Landscape but the figures differ - Word appears to have reversed the
>> figures for Left and Right in Landscape.
>>
>> Any help much appreciated.
>>
>> Happy New Year to everyone who has contributed to informative and
>> entertaining reading during the past year.
>>
>> John Grierson
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