Printing Oddity - Printing Single Emails Vs Multiple Selection

[Caster_Keller]

I'm using Outlook 2003 and the email format defaults to HTML.

When I choose to print a selected email (right-click, Print button), the
email prints (HTML format) with the date at the bottom left hand corner and
the text "Page x of y" at the top right hand corner. This is exactly how I'm
expecting the email to print.

However, if I choose a range of emails (right-click, Print button) the email
seems to print in a different format. For starters the page number is at the
bottom centre (there is no header). The email body text appears to be double
line spaced (as opposed to single line spaced in the individually printed
email).

In some cases, (when I've been tested this to find a fix) a one page
individually printed email prints out on two pages as part of a multiple
print job. In some cases this difference runs to 6 pages against 9 pages
respectively.

I've checked the table and memo styles in the page set up and can't find
anything (obvious to me at least) that I'm missing. The prints are being
produced on the same network printer.

If anyone has any suggestions as to why this is happening and what the fix
is, I'd really appreciate it. Obviously, printing a 'batch' of emails is much
quicker than printing one by one but I'm wasting a lot of paper ...

Many thanks

 

[Diane Poremsky [MVP]]

Did you look at the footer options in IE's print setup dialog? Outlook uses
it's printer engine.

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[Caster_Keller]

Thanks for your response Diane - I hadn't checked there.

Why does this make a difference? (Forgive me if I'm being dense!!) The email
is formatted to HMTL, printing the individual email, it is using the Outlook
(memo style) template, but multiple copies uses IE print set up?

Did you look at the footer options in IE's print setup dialog? Outlook uses
it's printer engine.

--
Diane Poremsky [MVP - Outlook]



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I'm using Outlook 2003 and the email format defaults to HTML.

When I choose to print a selected email (right-click, Print button), the
email prints (HTML format) with the date at the bottom left hand corner
and
the text "Page x of y" at the top right hand corner. This is exactly how
I'm
expecting the email to print.

However, if I choose a range of emails (right-click, Print button) the
email
seems to print in a different format. For starters the page number is at
the
bottom centre (there is no header). The email body text appears to be
double
line spaced (as opposed to single line spaced in the individually printed
email).

In some cases, (when I've been tested this to find a fix) a one page
individually printed email prints out on two pages as part of a multiple
print job. In some cases this difference runs to 6 pages against 9 pages
respectively.

I've checked the table and memo styles in the page set up and can't find
anything (obvious to me at least) that I'm missing. The prints are being
produced on the same network printer.

If anyone has any suggestions as to why this is happening and what the fix
is, I'd really appreciate it. Obviously, printing a 'batch' of emails is
much
quicker than printing one by one but I'm wasting a lot of paper ...

Many thanks