Why is only the left hand part of my page printed?

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Hi Leo,
Greetings from Australia.
The printing of web pages has had me thinking for a long time, what I stumbled over recently was that if I saved the web page from explorer and then opened it again while off line I found the option on the tool bar of "edit with front page" when you click on that icon and get the page up it prints out ok,I reckon that's easier than playing with printer settings.
One snag though, I can't remember how the front page icon got to the tool bar, did I tell explorer to make front page my default editor?
Over to you.
Regards,
Chris Faulkner.

Hi Leo! I really enjoy getting your "ask Leo" newsletters. They are so informative. It is irritating to print a receipt or article online to see the right margin cut off. I have found something the seems to solve that problem. Before clicking "print", I hold the CTRL on my keyboard then use the middle wheel on my mouse ~ scrolling either front or back, which decreases or increases the font size. It doesn't work for everything, but most of the time it does. Decreasing the size gives you a complete printed page.

Thank you. Yes, that's another approach, but as you see, it doesn't work for all sites.

A friend of mine confirmed that IE7 does, in fact, include scaling or "fit to page". Good news.

I've just purchased a Canon(fairly basic)printer and it came with a nifty piece of software that addresses precisely this issue. It's called "Web Easy-print" and it's a tool bar thar sits under the main IE tool bar. Simply click on the "print" button and it fits the entire web page onto the sheet. I'm surprised that other printer manufacturers don't follow suit..

Thanks Leo. I always used CANON "easy web print"when I was using Internet Explorer without any problem but could not do this with Firefox,and have been frustrated for several weeks until I found your site Problem solved! its a simple solution but not in the Firefox forums? THANK YOU VERY MUCH.Regards Chippy

Hi Leo. Read your article but am still having trouble with resizing web pages with Firefox. I've used the Shrink to Fit from File and Tools. Everything is fine in Print Preview, but that's all that works. When I save it, I still have only the left side. Any hints?

My problem was losing the right side copy. Your information was perfect and I am able to print the full page to scale BUT now I cannot get web page type enlarged so they could be easier to read.How do I rvert back to the settings I had before. I have trie but nothing works. Hope you can help. Thanks

I have found that the "fit to page" setting sometimes results in text that is too small to read. This is really frustrating when what you want is in the center of the page, but you don't really want the Ad Words, etc that are often down the right side. I have found that sometimes, right clicking in the area I want to print, and selecting print will just print the main article. I usually try the print preview option first, just to be sure.

I DOWN LOADED A BATCH FILE FOR PRINTING WIDE PAGES THAT WORKS BUT CANT FIND IT NOW...ANY HELP?

ED

hi from ireland and thanks so much for your help, i just couldnt remember how to change from landscape to portrait and you solved it in secounds. thanks again for your help

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