How to print out a page too wide for printer

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How to print out a page too wide for printer

Post by Bill Myrick »

For example--on The Texas Steel Guitar Ass'n web site where they list the upcoming march show --when I open it and look at the print preview, it does not include the right hand side of the info-- Is there a way to shrink the page so all is on it ? www.texassteelguitar.org Thank you-- Bill Myrick
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Post by Wiz Feinberg »

Bill;
Your printer properties may have an options screen that allows you to shrink to fit. If you are trying to print a web page, try going to File > Print. On the Print dialog find the Properties button and click it to explore for a resize option, click Apply, then OK to start printing. You may also be able to manually adjust the size from the properties sheet with that option, say to 90%, or less, as required. Your fonts will shrink as you reduce the overall size.

Alternately, switch the print format to Landscape, instead of Portrait. That may include the missing portions without shrinking the fonts, but will require additional pages in many instances.
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Post by Jack Stoner »

Another option is to only highlight the area you want to print, if you don't want the complete web page.

Highlight the area and then in Internet Explorer (and maybe other browsers such as firefox) click Print then check "print selection" and then print. It will only print what you highlighted.