[mso] Re: Margins in Landscape printing
- From: "John Grierson" <griersoft@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: <mso@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Thu, 1 Jan 2009 23:36:31 -0000
Hi David,
Your comments have prompted a memory - I am sure that way back in Word 6 I
was able to issue a command in a macro that enabled me to specify whether
Left or Right was "Top"
But I think this is something for Lexmark to sort out.
Many thanks for your thoughts
John
John Grierson
----- Original Message -----
From: "David Smart" <smartware@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
To: <mso@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Thursday, January 01, 2009 11:28 PM
Subject: [mso] Re: Margins in Landscape printing
> Just re-reading the original message, I think I misread it. I would
> expect
> the orientation of landscape to be "to the left" - i.e. the right side of
> the landscape page is the bit that feeds into the printer first. And I
> think that that's exactly what John was saying. So ignore my comment.
>
> Regards, Dave S
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Jonathan Drawer" <jdrawer07@xxxxxxxxx>
> To: <mso@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Sent: Friday, January 02, 2009 9:31 AM
> Subject: [mso] Re: Margins in Landscape printing
>
>
>> As a test I checked that for Portrait the top of the page is printed
>> first
>> from Word 2003 on my HP Deskjet 820Cse. For Landscape the Right side is
>> printed first. The blank paper is fed in in the same way for all
>> printing.
>> The default margin for the Top (0.04") in Portrait is the same as that
>> for
>> the Right in Landscape. The default margin for the Bottom (0.46") in
>> Portrait is the same as that for the Left in Landscape. That seems
>> correct
>> since the printer permits printing closer to the edge of the paper that
>> passes first through the printer (the Top in Portrait and Right in
>> Landscape) and requires a larger magin at the end of the paper (the
>> Bottom
>> in Portrait and Left in Landscape).
>> I can't find anything in the Printer setup allowing the setting of
>> default
>> margins so I must assume they are defined in the printer driver as Dian
>> indicated. Other web sites also indicate the same. So contacting Lexmark
>> about the problem may be the only solution.
>>
>> Jonathan
>>
>> --- On Thu, 1/1/09, David Smart <smartware@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>> From: David Smart <smartware@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
>> Subject: [mso] Re: Margins in Landscape printing
>> To: mso@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
>> Date: Thursday, January 1, 2009, 3:59 PM
>>
>> 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
>>>> Technical Consultant, Microsoft MVP
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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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