Word XP insists on incorrect bottom margn

[Seth]

Hi,

I am using Office XP on some WinXP Pro computers and printing to a common HP
4050N laser. Periodically when I try to print or set up a document, WordXP
and the printer driver insist that because of the minimum printable area of
a letter size page my document must have a bottom margin of at least 2.67
inches. This is nonsense of course. The printable area of the page
actually should allow a bottom margin as small as 0.25 inches (and sometimes
does.)

I have tried rebooting and I have tried reinstalling the printer driver.
The problem comes and goes. The odd thing is that I can print the same
document from two identical computers, running the same version of WordXP,
and printing to the same printer and have the problem occur with one
computer and not the other. This suggests that the problem is not the
document, but something about the printer driver/Word/Operating System
relationship.

Anybody seen this kind of behavior or have any ideas?

Thanks,

Seth

 

[Bob Buckland ?:-\)]

Hi Seth,

It's a bug in the HP printer drivers. See if the
appropriate driver from the 'Word Margins fix'
list on this site helps:
http://www.hp.com/pond/ljbeta/index.html

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Hi,

I am using Office XP on some WinXP Pro computers and printing to a common HP
4050N laser. Periodically when I try to print or set up a document, WordXP
and the printer driver insist that because of the minimum printable area of
a letter size page my document must have a bottom margin of at least 2.67
inches. This is nonsense of course. The printable area of the page
actually should allow a bottom margin as small as 0.25 inches (and sometimes
does.)

I have tried rebooting and I have tried reinstalling the printer driver.
The problem comes and goes. The odd thing is that I can print the same
document from two identical computers, running the same version of WordXP,
and printing to the same printer and have the problem occur with one
computer and not the other. This suggests that the problem is not the
document, but something about the printer driver/Word/Operating System
relationship.

Anybody seen this kind of behavior or have any ideas?

Thanks,

Seth >>
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I hope this helps you,

Bob Buckland ?
MS Office System Products MVP

*Courtesy is not expensive and can pay big dividends*

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--
I hope this helps you,

Bob Buckland ?
MS Office System Products MVP

*Courtesy is not expensive and can pay big dividends*

The Office 2003 System parts explained
http://microsoft.com/uk/office/preview/system.asp

 

[Seth]

Thanks for the tip Bob. I found the beta driver and will give it a whirl.

Seth

 

[noodle]

I am having the same issues except with Word 2003, any ideas, did the
beta driver for hp work?

Nadya

 

[Beth Melton]

I can personally verify works for Word 2000 - Word 2002. It should
work for Word 2003 as well.

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[tippy]

I would take care in switching drivers. Seems every time there is a
fix by using a different driver, something else is messed up. For
example, I just recently switched to a driver that would preclude
excessive spacing when fully justifying text. By doing so, I get
error messages on the margins from time to time, even at an 1" around.
Still works though. But I can't afford to use a driver that messes up
the spacing in fully justified text.

Tippy