WD2000: Page Borders May Be Displayed or Printed IncorrectlyID: Q189889
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When you print or view a document in print preview, page borders in your document may not print, may not be shown, or you may receive the following error message:
One or more margins are set outside the printable area of the page. Choose the Fix button to increase the appropriate margins.
The default page border is only 24 points (about 5/16 inch) from the edge
of the page, regardless of the actual nonprintable region for your printer.
Even though your document margins may fit in the printable region of the
page, the page border may still be in the nonprintable region defined by
your printer driver.
This problem affects HP DeskJet printers more than others. The bottom
nonprintable region of the HP DeskJet printers is 0.67 inches or larger. The
specific setting depends on the DeskJet series printer driver.
To work around this problem, use one of the following methods to change the page border margins.
Microsoft has confirmed this to be a problem in the Microsoft products listed at the beginning of this article.
Most printers cannot print all the way to the edge of the paper due to
physical limitations in the way the printer handles paper.
If you set your document margins closer to the edge of the paper than
your printer is capable of printing, Microsoft Word and Microsoft Word
Viewer return a warning message for each copy that you send to the printer.
Most laser printers, such as the Hewlett-Packard (HP) LaserJet, cannot
print closer than 0.25 inch to any edge of the paper. Some laser printers,
such as the HP LaserJet Series II, require 0.5 inch margins. DeskJet
printers generally cannot print closer to the bottom edge than 0.67 inch.
Most PostScript and dot-matrix printers have their own internal printer
driver setting for margins.
For more information about nonprintable regions, please see the following
articles in the Microsoft Knowledge Base:
Q191031 WD2000: "Margins Set Outside Printable Area of Page" in Word
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Keywords : kberrmsg kbprint kbdta wd2000
Version : WINDOWS:2000
Platform : WINDOWS
Issue type : kbbug
Last Reviewed: August 12, 1999