OfficeJet page setup

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Eric Therrien

Hello,

I have this OfficeJet G85, all in one, that I got cheap as this was the
demo. I am running it with USB and Win XP and the latest HP driver (but it
did the same thing before anyway).

I am having problem while printing. Every print-out start at the upper hedge
of the paper. While this is good for a photocopy, this is not what I want
when I print out of the computer.

I would guess that the driver improperly report the minimum top hedge for
the printer (only tried with Standard Letter), so when you print the page
look like it was pushed up, leaving a bigger lower margin...

I use not to mind about it and thought I would fix it later... Well, this is
later. I need to print invitation cards on both side and this problem is
"screwing" the alignement on both side. It is missing the midle alignement
by about 3/4 of an inch.

HP Tech support suggested to fix this in the page setup of the application
by compensating for it. Well, you can't do this from PowerPoint (don't ask,
it's my sister's work and anyway, I want to resolve this for me as well).

I suggested that it was there page definition that was wrong and still have
to receive an answer on this.

Anyone as an idea on how to fix this? Would the definition be in the
registry or hard-coded in the program?

Thank's in advance.
 
Eric Therrien said:
Hello,

I have this OfficeJet G85, all in one, that I got cheap as this was the
demo. I am running it with USB and Win XP and the latest HP driver (but it
did the same thing before anyway).

I am having problem while printing. Every print-out start at the upper hedge
of the paper. While this is good for a photocopy, this is not what I want
when I print out of the computer.

I would guess that the driver improperly report the minimum top hedge for
the printer (only tried with Standard Letter), so when you print the page
look like it was pushed up, leaving a bigger lower margin...
Click to expand...

The G85 has a minimum hardware top margin of 0.08" and a bottom margin of
0.46". You should be able to set margins from your application. When printing
in landscape mode (typical from PowerPoint) you will need to increase the left
margin.

Regards,
Bob Headrick, not speaking for my employer HP
 
On Tue, 14 Oct 2003 22:00:16 -0400, Eric Therrien wrote:

=>HP Tech support suggested to fix this in the page setup of the application
=>by compensating for it.

HP Tech is correct - you must set the page margins in
_every_ application. Most already have them set for
particular types of documents, such a greeting cards,
labels, etc (look under "templates.") Can you set margins
from within PP? Does PP have such templates? If so, use
them, and see what happens. The templates for screen
display obviously are designed to use the smallest
"non-printable margins" possible, so that they will fill
the screen. If you can't control the margins from within
PP, you're SOL, and I suggest you use word-processors for
greeting cards, etc, instead of PP. You should be able to
export PP graphics, so all is not lost.
 
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