When printing Pages documents or PDF's, the bottom of the page is cut off

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When printing Pages documents or PDF's, the bottom of the page is cut off

I am using Mac OS 10.6.8 with Pages '08. My printer is HP Deskjet 460.

Whenever I print a Pages Document or a PDF that fills the entire page, the bottom is cut off by about 1cm.

I have tried to create a custom page size with no margins and save this as the default the result is the same.

It's highly frustrating as I have a document on letter head that needs printing but the bottom section of the letterhead is cut off everytime. The top of the page is fine, but the bottom is always cut off, even though when I look at the print preview it shows that the document is within the boundaries. If I shrink the document to fit the page then I end up with 1cm of space at the bottom of the page.

Please help! I am wasting a lot of time and ink trying to solve this! 😕

MacBook Pro, Mac OS X (10.6.8)

Posted on Apr 26, 2012 4:06 AM

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smileynd Author

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May 18, 2012 4:03 AM in response to Jerrold Green1

I decided to take Jerrold's advice and converted the pdf to a jpeg to see if borderless printing was possible with a picture. Before printing I selected 'Scale to Fit' then 'Fill Entire Paper' and it worked! It printed the entire page including the 1cm at the bottom that was previously cut off.

So bascially with this HP printer if I want to print PDF's without leaving a 1cm gap at the bottom of the page, I first need to open the PDF in Preview, Save as jpeg, then print using the settings above.

A little annoying but at least it's a solution! Thanks everyone for your help! 🙂

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Apr 26, 2012 5:42 AM in response to smileynd

Smiley,

This is almost certainly a printer limitation. One way to check is to Print to PDF and then Print to your Printer and compare the two.

Whatever Pages prints to the PDF is the same as what it is trying to print to the printer. Printers commonly have a small area that the print heads are not designed to cover. Some printers have special settings for photographs, called borderless, that override that limitation. Check your paper size options for borderless.

Jerry

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fruhulda

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Apr 26, 2012 6:46 AM in response to smileynd

in View choose Show Layout. You will now see a grey border which is the part that you printer can't print on.

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smileynd Author

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Apr 26, 2012 7:50 AM in response to fruhulda

Yep, as you suggested I chose Show Layout and the grey border around the outside showed about 1cm at the bottom that keeps getting cut off. I changed the page set up to the custom page size I created with no margins and the grey part disappeared from the bottom!

However, when I printed, it still cut off 1cm at the bottom so I am now convinced that it's a printer issue and that the heads aren't designed to print that section of the paper (as suggested by Jerrold Green 1).......highly annoying because it means I will always have 1cm of space at the bottom no matter what I print! 😟

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fruhulda

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Apr 26, 2012 8:46 AM in response to smileynd

Yes, HP printers seems to have that issue. I haven't heard anu similar complaints about other printers in this forum.

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leif69

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May 17, 2017 8:55 AM in response to smileynd

I have a iPhone 7 printing on a Cannon printer. All I had to do to fix this problem is convert the email to pdf first. Now the pages don't get cut off on the bottom.

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