Printing from the internet

[DevilishTexan]

This ever happen to you. You want to print an internet page so you do. Except it comes out with about an inch cut off on the right. You make the letters smaller and it helps a bit. You vary the margins and it helps a bit. But still not where you want. Any idea how to remedy this?

 

[Weird Harold]

This ever happen to you. You want to print an internet page so you do. Except it comes out with about an inch cut off on the right. You make the letters smaller and it helps a bit. You vary the margins and it helps a bit. But still not where you want. Any idea how to remedy this?

The only thing I can suggest is to look for a "printer friendly" link on any page you want to print from the web.

Another alternative is to use the screen capture function and print the information from the saved image(s) so you're printing what you see on the screen instead of the HTML page that creted what you see.

I don't know if temporarily increasing your screen resolution would help or not but it's worth a try.

 

[DevilishTexan]

The only thing I can suggest is to look for a "printer friendly" link on any page you want to print from the web.

Another alternative is to use the screen capture function and print the information from the saved image(s) so you're printing what you see on the screen instead of the HTML page that creted what you see.

I don't know if temporarily increasing your screen resolution would help or not but it's worth a try.

You ever have this problem? Its annoying. Doesn't happen every time however.

 

[Weird Harold]

You ever have this problem? Its annoying. Doesn't happen every time however.

Not recently and not exactly the problem you're having with margins -- but I have had problems with printing web-pages that aren't optimized for printing, and a few that ARE supposedly printer friendly. Most of the problems I've had printing web-pages were "run-overs" where the last line or so prints on a new piece of paper.

 

[Snowman5933]

You can also go to page setup and change the orientation from portrait to landscape.

 

[Cathleen]

DT, have you ever tried using the 'selection' option? Click and drag what you want to print and then on the print page under 'page range' there is 'selection'. Maybe?

 

[mrp_elo]

two solutions...

1) you can get an extension for firefox called Snapper, and then drag over the part of the page that you want, and it will take a picture of that part and save it to the directory you want on your computer.

2) you can usually go to File>>Page Setup and take out margins completely, then print

 

[Never]

I just copy and paste into word. You'll keep all your images, fonts, and colors.

 

[DevilishTexan]

DT, have you ever tried using the 'selection' option? Click and drag what you want to print and then on the print page under 'page range' there is 'selection'. Maybe?

I've tried selection but not quite the way you suggest I don't believe.

 

[glynndah]

It's all a conspiracy by the paper manufacturers so you'll use more paper. That's why that final line never fits on the same page.

 

[MagicFingers]

3 fixes

Copying to Word, then printing works great.

MArking ONLY the text you want to print, then selecting File, Print, and "Selection" will print only the selected text.

And setting the margins to minimum on left and right will get most of it to print, if you want to print the text along with all the other garbage on the web page.

 

[naughtygirl69s]

how do you do "screen capture" anyway?

 

[Weird Harold]

how do you do "screen capture" anyway?

(on a Windows PC)
1: scroll around to get the image you want to capture on the screen

2: press the Print Screen key -- some applications may require Shift-Prnt Scrn

3: in an image editing program -- like Irfanview, if you don't have another image editor -- select "Paste as a New Image" from the Edit Menu or right-click context menu.

4: (optional) crop, resize, and obscure personal information as necessary.

5: Save the image to disk.

MAC users have similar capability, but I don't know the step-by-step process. Many image editing programs have a more sophisticated capture function -- check the help menu for details on how to use the capture function.