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How do I print borderless?
I have a printer that can print borderless (HP 9670). When I place bars and
boxes on a document at the edge, they look fine in print layout view. However, when I go to print preview, Word has added a margin on the side (~1/8") and bottom (~1/2"). It won't let me get rid of the margin. |
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I would imagine this will be a printer setting.
-- Suzanne S. Barnhill Microsoft MVP (Word) Words into Type Fairhope, Alabama USA Word MVP FAQ site: http://word.mvps.org Email cannot be acknowledged; please post all follow-ups to the newsgroup so all may benefit. "kushmtlaurel" wrote in message ... I have a printer that can print borderless (HP 9670). When I place bars and boxes on a document at the edge, they look fine in print layout view. However, when I go to print preview, Word has added a margin on the side (~1/8") and bottom (~1/2"). It won't let me get rid of the margin. |
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Suzanne,
Thanks for responding. I've gone through the printer settings and selected borderless. I've also called HP support to ensure I had their settings correct. Even with those set, I can tell it's something within MS Word because the print preview won't show a background going to the borders. It's as though Word is assuming the printer can not do borderless and limiting the minimum border size. If I try to print a picture in MS office picture manager, that prints borderless fine. I have not benn able to get any of the MS Office apps to print borderless. Our intention was to do colored brochures. "Suzanne S. Barnhill" wrote: I would imagine this will be a printer setting. -- Suzanne S. Barnhill Microsoft MVP (Word) Words into Type Fairhope, Alabama USA Word MVP FAQ site: http://word.mvps.org Email cannot be acknowledged; please post all follow-ups to the newsgroup so all may benefit. "kushmtlaurel" wrote in message ... I have a printer that can print borderless (HP 9670). When I place bars and boxes on a document at the edge, they look fine in print layout view. However, when I go to print preview, Word has added a margin on the side (~1/8") and bottom (~1/2"). It won't let me get rid of the margin. |
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There seems to be a contradiction in your second paragraph. Can you or can't
you print borderless from Office? Have you tried printing from Word? It may be that Print Preview lies. -- Suzanne S. Barnhill Microsoft MVP (Word) Words into Type Fairhope, Alabama USA Word MVP FAQ site: http://word.mvps.org Email cannot be acknowledged; please post all follow-ups to the newsgroup so all may benefit. "kushmtlaurel" wrote in message ... Suzanne, Thanks for responding. I've gone through the printer settings and selected borderless. I've also called HP support to ensure I had their settings correct. Even with those set, I can tell it's something within MS Word because the print preview won't show a background going to the borders. It's as though Word is assuming the printer can not do borderless and limiting the minimum border size. If I try to print a picture in MS office picture manager, that prints borderless fine. I have not benn able to get any of the MS Office apps to print borderless. Our intention was to do colored brochures. "Suzanne S. Barnhill" wrote: I would imagine this will be a printer setting. -- Suzanne S. Barnhill Microsoft MVP (Word) Words into Type Fairhope, Alabama USA Word MVP FAQ site: http://word.mvps.org Email cannot be acknowledged; please post all follow-ups to the newsgroup so all may benefit. "kushmtlaurel" wrote in message ... I have a printer that can print borderless (HP 9670). When I place bars and boxes on a document at the edge, they look fine in print layout view. However, when I go to print preview, Word has added a margin on the side (~1/8") and bottom (~1/2"). It won't let me get rid of the margin. |
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Word doesn't assume anything about the print area. It will only print what
the driver will allow it to print. Assuming that you have matching page sizes in the driver options and in Word and have no scaling options set, the limits are those read from the driver. If that is wrong, then it's a driver problem. HP, FWIW, has a history of printer driver anomalies - it often posts beta updates to quietly fix such issues at http://www.hp.com/pond/ljbeta/ . See if there's a driver there for your printer. kushmtlaurel wrote: Suzanne, Thanks for responding. I've gone through the printer settings and selected borderless. I've also called HP support to ensure I had their settings correct. Even with those set, I can tell it's something within MS Word because the print preview won't show a background going to the borders. It's as though Word is assuming the printer can not do borderless and limiting the minimum border size. If I try to print a picture in MS office picture manager, that prints borderless fine. I have not benn able to get any of the MS Office apps to print borderless. Our intention was to do colored brochures. "Suzanne S. Barnhill" wrote: I would imagine this will be a printer setting. -- Suzanne S. Barnhill Microsoft MVP (Word) Words into Type Fairhope, Alabama USA Word MVP FAQ site: http://word.mvps.org Email cannot be acknowledged; please post all follow-ups to the newsgroup so all may benefit. "kushmtlaurel" wrote in message ... I have a printer that can print borderless (HP 9670). When I place bars and boxes on a document at the edge, they look fine in print layout view. However, when I go to print preview, Word has added a margin on the side (~1/8") and bottom (~1/2"). It won't let me get rid of the margin. |
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Suzanne,
Sorry for the confusion. Yes I have tried printing from Word. It's prints exactly as it looks in Print Preview (still with a border). I was only mentioning that to point out that Word itself seemed to be the limiting factor on borders. "Suzanne S. Barnhill" wrote: There seems to be a contradiction in your second paragraph. Can you or can't you print borderless from Office? Have you tried printing from Word? It may be that Print Preview lies. -- Suzanne S. Barnhill Microsoft MVP (Word) Words into Type Fairhope, Alabama USA Word MVP FAQ site: http://word.mvps.org Email cannot be acknowledged; please post all follow-ups to the newsgroup so all may benefit. "kushmtlaurel" wrote in message ... Suzanne, Thanks for responding. I've gone through the printer settings and selected borderless. I've also called HP support to ensure I had their settings correct. Even with those set, I can tell it's something within MS Word because the print preview won't show a background going to the borders. It's as though Word is assuming the printer can not do borderless and limiting the minimum border size. If I try to print a picture in MS office picture manager, that prints borderless fine. I have not benn able to get any of the MS Office apps to print borderless. Our intention was to do colored brochures. "Suzanne S. Barnhill" wrote: I would imagine this will be a printer setting. -- Suzanne S. Barnhill Microsoft MVP (Word) Words into Type Fairhope, Alabama USA Word MVP FAQ site: http://word.mvps.org Email cannot be acknowledged; please post all follow-ups to the newsgroup so all may benefit. "kushmtlaurel" wrote in message ... I have a printer that can print borderless (HP 9670). When I place bars and boxes on a document at the edge, they look fine in print layout view. However, when I go to print preview, Word has added a margin on the side (~1/8") and bottom (~1/2"). It won't let me get rid of the margin. |
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Graham,
Thanks. I will check that sight. However, the current HP driver I'm using prints borderless fine from other programs (i.e. MS Picture-IT, MS Office Picture Manager, Adobe Indesign). So the printer driver is allowing those programs to print borderless. Have you ever been able to print borderless from Word? "Graham Mayor" wrote: Word doesn't assume anything about the print area. It will only print what the driver will allow it to print. Assuming that you have matching page sizes in the driver options and in Word and have no scaling options set, the limits are those read from the driver. If that is wrong, then it's a driver problem. HP, FWIW, has a history of printer driver anomalies - it often posts beta updates to quietly fix such issues at http://www.hp.com/pond/ljbeta/ . See if there's a driver there for your printer. kushmtlaurel wrote: Suzanne, Thanks for responding. I've gone through the printer settings and selected borderless. I've also called HP support to ensure I had their settings correct. Even with those set, I can tell it's something within MS Word because the print preview won't show a background going to the borders. It's as though Word is assuming the printer can not do borderless and limiting the minimum border size. If I try to print a picture in MS office picture manager, that prints borderless fine. I have not benn able to get any of the MS Office apps to print borderless. Our intention was to do colored brochures. "Suzanne S. Barnhill" wrote: I would imagine this will be a printer setting. -- Suzanne S. Barnhill Microsoft MVP (Word) Words into Type Fairhope, Alabama USA Word MVP FAQ site: http://word.mvps.org Email cannot be acknowledged; please post all follow-ups to the newsgroup so all may benefit. "kushmtlaurel" wrote in message ... I have a printer that can print borderless (HP 9670). When I place bars and boxes on a document at the edge, they look fine in print layout view. However, when I go to print preview, Word has added a margin on the side (~1/8") and bottom (~1/2"). It won't let me get rid of the margin. |
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The fact that other applications can print to the edge is not really the
issue. Word works very much more closely with the printer driver than most applications and demands more of it. It is still likely to be the printer driver that's the problem. My own printers do not print to the edge so I cannot comment as to whether it is even possible to do so from Word. -- Graham Mayor - Word MVP My web site www.gmayor.com Word MVP web site http://word.mvps.org kushmtlaurel wrote: Graham, Thanks. I will check that sight. However, the current HP driver I'm using prints borderless fine from other programs (i.e. MS Picture-IT, MS Office Picture Manager, Adobe Indesign). So the printer driver is allowing those programs to print borderless. Have you ever been able to print borderless from Word? "Graham Mayor" wrote: Word doesn't assume anything about the print area. It will only print what the driver will allow it to print. Assuming that you have matching page sizes in the driver options and in Word and have no scaling options set, the limits are those read from the driver. If that is wrong, then it's a driver problem. HP, FWIW, has a history of printer driver anomalies - it often posts beta updates to quietly fix such issues at http://www.hp.com/pond/ljbeta/ . See if there's a driver there for your printer. kushmtlaurel wrote: Suzanne, Thanks for responding. I've gone through the printer settings and selected borderless. I've also called HP support to ensure I had their settings correct. Even with those set, I can tell it's something within MS Word because the print preview won't show a background going to the borders. It's as though Word is assuming the printer can not do borderless and limiting the minimum border size. If I try to print a picture in MS office picture manager, that prints borderless fine. I have not benn able to get any of the MS Office apps to print borderless. Our intention was to do colored brochures. "Suzanne S. Barnhill" wrote: I would imagine this will be a printer setting. -- Suzanne S. Barnhill Microsoft MVP (Word) Words into Type Fairhope, Alabama USA Word MVP FAQ site: http://word.mvps.org Email cannot be acknowledged; please post all follow-ups to the newsgroup so all may benefit. "kushmtlaurel" wrote in message ... I have a printer that can print borderless (HP 9670). When I place bars and boxes on a document at the edge, they look fine in print layout view. However, when I go to print preview, Word has added a margin on the side (~1/8") and bottom (~1/2"). It won't let me get rid of the margin. |
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