Printing Margins - Reset Safari Library?

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Open a Finder window. Select the effected user account in the Sidebar on the left. Now open the Library folder then the Preferences folder.

Look for a file similar to this. com.epson(model#).plist

I'm using Epson as an example. Move the .plist file to the Desktop.

Relaunch Safari.

Try printing. If you can print with margins, move that .plist file to the Trash.







Carolyn 🙂

Try troubleshooting the Safari .plist file.



Open a Finder window. Select your Home Folder in the Sidebar on the left. It has a small house icon. Then open the Library folder then the Preferences folder.

Move the com.apple.Safari.plist file from the Preferences folder to the Desktop. Now launch Safari. If Safari prints as as it should, move the .plist file to the Trash.

Also, in your printer utility window when print from Safari, try the Preset as Standard not Last Used Settings.

I haven't tried this myself but it may help you.

http://hintsforums.macworld.com/archive/index.php/t-70860.html



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Ok, I had the same problem where the left margin was clipped off and literally spent hours trying to fix it.

I found a solution that worked for me so I registered for this Forum expressly to post the fix.

It's simple, but not intuitive.

From *within Safari* choose "File-->Print." Then select the "Paper Size" drop-down option and choose "Manage Custom Sizes."

Use the "+" sign to create a new template.

Double-click on the name of the template "Untitled" and type in a name of your choosing, such as "US Letter for Safari" and hit "return" to save the name.

For "Paper Size" type in "8.5 in" for width and "11 in" for height.

For "Non-Printable Area" select "User Defined."

Then input your Top, Bottom, Left, and Right margin settings.

I input the following:

-Top and Right: .25"
-Bottom: .5"
-Left: .35"

Then hit "OK" and quit Safari.

Then go to "System Preferences -->Print and Fax" and then select your printer from the menu on the left side.

Once you do that, you should see a drop-down tab in the lower-middle section of the screen that says, "Default Paper Size."

Select the paper size that you just created in Safari and quit System Preferences.

Then open Safari and print a test page.

What's really odd is that you DO NOT need to select the Paper Size on the "Print" screen menu. For me, it still defaults to "Letter," but it actually prints the margin sizes that I set for my Custom paper size.

I hope this saves at least one person all the frustration that I went through looking for a fix!

Ive actually got the opposite problem. Safari ALWAYS prints with huge margins, even when the documents have no margins , all are 0.
And the Preview.app is even worse. Spent ages looking for the Margins settings for Safari... There are no margin settings for Safari.! Clearly not a professional app then.

The printer settings are all over the place and seem to have no order, and do not stick when set!

I had to boot up my old Windows machine to print a document... not happy jan!

I will try the plist deletion methods, and thank you for the solution example.. Apple need to fix this BS.

Thank you, Thank you. Thank you.

Who would have thought. I appreciate the time you took to join the forum and post this.

I was in a hopeless spriral until I read Mac's solution.

Did I say thanks?

Oh, I was so hopeful, this has been bugging me for several years now (I can't understand why Apple hasn't fixed this yet!) -- but for some reason MacLombie's workaround does not work for me. I have tried it multiple times; I deleted my old custom paper size, created a new one, went through the steps exactly in the same order, but it is still printing out to the edge of the page. Why?!?

Nuts; I just spent another half an hour trying to get MacLombie's workaround to work for me, and for whatever reason it does not. Did the new paper size with full one inch margins (to make sure), quit Safari, went to print&fax preferences, selected my new paper size for my printer, quit that, restarted Safari, and it's still printing out to the edge of the page. Even tried restarting the computer, and nothing. I'm giving up once again, and this has been bothering me for several years. Maybe need to send another message to Apple begging them to fix.

@ MacLombie
Your precise and excellently detailed description was the FIX that was eluding me -- regarding the left side of the page being clipped when printing from Safari.

THANK YOU, THANK YOU, THANK YOU!

Thank you! Thank you!

This has been driving me insane.

D.B.