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IE7 and print size

IE7 and print size
Thu, 11 Jan 2007 13:56:18 -050
I havae Windows XP and IE7 and a Dell 924 all-in-one printer

I sent the following post to Delltalkforums
I have a Dell all-in-one 924 printer. When I print from My Documents 
everything prints OK but when I go on the Internet and print, the size of 
the print has been very small this past week or so. Today it was almost 
microscopic. If I go to Tools - Print Size and select Largest, it still 
prints very small. Isn't this option for the printer rather than the screen. 
I'm beginning to think I am wrong about this. If not how can I enlarge the 
print? This happens when I go to the Internet via Internet Explorer 7 using 
my Verizon DSL and when I go to the Internet via MSN Premium using my DSL, 
and when I go to the Internet using AOL. I also have Mozilla Firefox and 
when I print from there it prints OK. Do you have an explanation. Were it 
not for Firefox printing OK I would think that maybe the web sites set it up 
this way voiding the print size selection on the Tools menu. I thought that 
possibly this was the case because when you try to print a document in 
regular or medium size it sometimes runs of the right edge of the page and 
the only way to correct it is to make print screens of the pages (not a very 
practical thing to do)

Since sending it, I have discovered that the problem lies with IE7  I.  see 
IE7 info Advanced Printing - Automatically scales a printed webpage so that 
it's not wider than the paper it will be printed on.  Internet Explorer also 
includes a multi-page print prieview with live margins, resizing text to 
avoid document clipping, and an option to print only selected text.

Please answer the following questions:  If you go to olls menu and select 
print size this is only for one-screen text true or false.

How can I get IE& to print in normal size and have this be the default.  I 
would still like to be able to manually change to small print so it won't 
print off page in certain documents.  Printing off page was always a problem 
with many web documents but changing the print to so small was not a good 
solution on the part of IE7.  I have found that sometimes web pages print 
very small and at other times almost microscopic.  I do not know if this has 
anything to du with my tools settings possibly being set to medium rather 
than largest.  Please explain.

Also why is thre no IE7 board? 

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