Hi Georgia (
[email protected]),
in the newsgroups
you posted:
|| I have tried everything to set my publication so that it will print
|| to the edge of the page with no success. Now I'd just like it to
|| print the entire page - it is leaving a white space - approximately
|| 1/2 inch - at the bottom of each page. Somewhere along the way I've
|| changed enough to create the problem I now have. I've tried the
|| following to correct the problem: change printing preferences,
|| calibrate printer, change margins in the Publisher document, tried
|| bordorless printing, change the master page eliminating heading and
|| footers...nothing has worked.
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Related Information for Microsoft Publisher - Printable Margins
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The most common printers in use today do not support full bleed. Full bleed
means that the printer is capable of printing to all the edges of the paper.
When a printer does not support a full bleed, you will find that certain
edges of your printed page will be cut off, showing only white space. This
is a limitation of your printer, not Publisher. You will either need to buy
a new printer that supports full bleed, or print to an oversized piece of
paper, then trim. Otherwise, determine your printable margins and adjust
your publication accordingly. To determine your printable margins, perform
one of the following:
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Use Wordpad to find out your printer margins:
1. Go to Start > Programs > Accessories > Wordpad
2. Go to File > Page Setup > Margins Section
3. Enter "0" for all four margin settings
4. As you enter "0", the margin setting will show you the measurements that
your printer is limited to.
5. Use these measurements in Publisher when designing your publication. I
recommend you go to Arrange > Layout Guides in Publisher and enter these
margins.
**Of note: "However, this method relies on your printer driver reporting the
maximum area correctly. Some drivers do not correctly report their maximum
print area, so you must manually measure your print area." - Ed Bennett
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Use Publisher to find out your printer margins:
A commonly-suggested way is to draw diagonal lines across the page, however
this is the least accurate of the manual methods, which is why my preferred
method is to draw pairs of vertical and horizontal lines spanning the entire
page. Once you have printed out your lines, you can draw in lines joining
the ends of each parallel line with a ruler, and measure the distance of
these from the edge of the page. You can then input these values into the
Arrange > Layout Guides dialog, and make sure that you never exceed your
maximum print area.
For tutorial details and screenshots, visit:
http://www.mvps.org/the_nerd/Publisher/horidiag.htm
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Brian Kvalheim
Microsoft Publisher MVP
http://www.publishermvps.com
~pay it forward~
This posting is provided "AS IS" with no warranties, and
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