Re: Firewire and Printing

Hi Beth,

I helped a friend a couple of weeks ago using OS X 10.2.x on a new
PowerBook and she claimed that when she printed from MS Word in OS X
on an HP inkjet printer, she was seeing the footer of the document
cut off. She claimed that this did not occur on the same Mac under OS
9 Word.

I told her that I had the same problem with my Epson C80. Here's what
worked for us both:

In Word, go to the Format menu and choose Document. Then, in the area
that says "From edge: Header 0.5 Footer 0.5", increase the size for
the header to 0.7 to start (that worked for me, but you may need 0.8
or 0.9). If you want do only do this once, click the "Default..."
button and you can change the "Normal" template that Word uses for a
blank document.

(In your note you mention an "increased header gap", so if you mean
that you are seeing too much space rather than the cut-off described
above, you should try decreasing the 0.5 default.)

You may have to perform similar configurations in other applications
that exhibit the truncation. There may be a way to edit the global
margins defined by your specific printer's driver software software,
but I don't know how to do that.

(Given the nature of OS X, such an operation may involve editing
files "in the raw" rather than in a GUI interface, but I would not be
surprised if this is possible.)

Rob Johnson

Beth Muramoto writes (12-01-2003 at 9:21 AM -0800):
   (Concerning - [MAGNet] Firewire and Printing):

>I emailed Magnet a week or so ago about some strange OSX app
>printing where any OSX app (IE, Word X) causes an increased header
>gap for no good reason (no deliberate set up to create a specific
>header spacing) and printing from a Classic version of IE or Word
>2001 is normal and the header is normal) and still don't have a
>solution to it. I did create a new user as Aron and others
>suggested and the problem exists in both accounts.

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