Re: Is there a way to define print offsets?

If I were the dean of a college and I found that thesis reviewers were wasting
their time measuring the margins of submissions, I'd fire them on the spot.

Of course, that might explain why I'm not an academic and -- with no more than a
master's degree -- I'm employed in a position where I do something useful. :-)

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On Tue, 25 Mar 2008 09:03:43 +0200, "Graham Mayor" <gmayor@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
wrote:

Of course they are working fine, but they have different drivers (and
drivers that are probably different to those that the reviewers are using).
*Any* document printed from Word will be a slave to the active printer
driver's capabilities. See
http://word.mvps.org/FAQs/Formatting/TextReflow.htm. Print the whole thing
on the same printer, or use PDF format if you have to supply a file version.

As Word is the industry standard word processing application, if the
reviewers are not aware of this aspect of the document creation process,
they have no business doing the reviewing!

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guyeda wrote:
Thanks for the reply macropod,

I think the printers are essentially working fine, they just have
minute differences in terms of the precise print locations. The
left/right difference is less than 1/32" and the top/bottom
difference is about 1/32". Unfortunately for me, that difference is
enough for the reviewers to notice while measuring. I'll probably
end up saving the file as a duplicate prior to the final printing and
goose the Word margin settings to match the physical print margins,
but this solution makes me somewhat nervous.

"macropod" wrote:

Hi guyeda,

This isn't something controlled by Word, but by your printer's
configuration. If you check the Printer properties (either through
Word's print menu or via the Windows Control Panel), you may find a
setting that allows you to define the print offsets. I doubt it,
though. Probably either or both of the printers need some
maintenance - or at least the paper trays adjusted properly.

Cheers
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"guyeda" <guyeda@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
news:07F80670-D1F5-4ACD-BCCD-6FC981BFB493@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
I'm printing a thesis that requires some pretty precise print
formatting (reviewers literally measure margins with a ruler!) I
need to print the document on two printers: one for the
black/white text pages and one for the color pages. The problem is
that the two printers have slightly different print
characteristics. The color printer prints slightly lower and to
the left and the black/white one prints far enough to the right to
have flush-right text fall within the right margin when printed
out. Back in the day, this was common and there were settings you
could define that could correct for these discrpeancies, but I
can't seem to find them in Word 2003.

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