It’s really annoying when you print out a web page, and there’s a bit chopped off down the right hand side.

This is because the standard margins for Internet Explorer are 19mm, which only allow a width of 637 pixels to be printed in portrait mode. Many web pages are a bit wider than this.

To fix it, just decrease the margins in Internet Explorer as follows:

- click on File/Page Setup
- In the margins box, change the Left and Right Margins to 5

This will allow you to print out most pages OK. If they still get chopped off, print them in landscape mode by clicking on Landscape in the page setup box.
(And if you are a web designer, why not try to make your pages “fluid” so that they’ll print out OK even with the standard IE printer settings)

Posted by Eric G.