Margins adjusted when printing in duplex

A vast number of people have mentioned this problem with duplexing and HP has not addressed it specifically in any of the threads. I am re-posting this issue in a new thread because the threads which do bring it up have been marked as "solved" and do not allow further commenting.
I have a C309g (running Vista 64) with auto duplex - which works - except that it squishes everything in and changes the margins when I use it. The printer properties/specifications say nothing about this attribute which is quite annoying and, quite frankly, unacceptable. The specifications allow for 1/4" margin, but, when auto-duplex is used, it downsizes the print area significantly. If I duplex manually, the margins are fine and do not change. I purchased this printer specifically for its auto-duplex capabilities, but it is unusable in that mode if it is going to change my documents from their original layout.

This is a peer to peer support forum.  If you want to contact HP click here.
Bob Headrick,  HP Expert
I am not an employee of HP, I am a volunteer posting here on my own time.
If your problem is solved please click the "Accept as Solution" button ------------V
If my answer was helpful please click the "Thumbs Up" to say "Thank You"--V

Similar Messages

  • Margins shrink when printing to PDF

    Okay...I use Windows XP, Adobe Acrobat 6.0, and recently (begrudingly) uppgraded to Adobe Reader X.  I have a printing problem ever since the upgrade to Reader X.  When I print a hardcopy of a document, it looks fine.  However, if I print to PDF, it decreases the margins down to nothing, and text gets cut off because the margins are too small.  When I look at printing options, there is no place to change the margins.  The closest thing I can find is the "Scaling" area.  There is not an option for "Scale to Page" or anything like that...just the ability to change the percentage from 0-???.  But even that doesn't help....the text is shrunk, but still too close to the top and left sides of the page.  How can I adjust the print margins????

    I am having the same problem.  I can't print any PDF files!  I never had a problem before and I can't pinpoint when this started happening.  I use Mac OX Lion.

  • Problem with margins shifting when printing.

    I have an installation template on an 11x17 sheet with 3/8” margins. There is a “left” and “right” version on each side (basically mirrored) and the intent is that they align front to back when you hold the sheet up to the light. When we print a proof, two sided, on our laser printer, the drawings match when the single sheet is held up to the light, but the margins are no longer the same; each is offset by a 1/16” in the same direction. BUT when you print one sided on our printer and hold the 2 sheets back to back, the drawings are off by 1/8” because the margins are off by the 1/16' in different directions. This creates a problem when it is sent to the commercial printers as they are printing single sided to their printing plates. (The problem still appears in the exported PDF file the printers use)
    The problem is, I can’t get InDesign to stop shifting the content on the page that 1/16”!
    If I look at the page, the margin guides show the correct 3/8”on both sides.
    If I look at the Master page, the margin guides show the correct 3/8”on both sides.
    Under “Margins and Columns” in InDesign, I found the correct margins set (0.375 - 3/8”) all around,  with 1 column and a 0.1667” Gutter. Ha .. I thought I had found it! So I removed the Gutter and checked “Enabled Layout”, But when printed, same problem.
    I then though it must be on the master pages and found and did the same thing as above, still no luck!
    Then I created a new master page and set it up as above and reapplied the new master page, still no luck!
    I’m stumped!?! If we can’t get these margins correct we can’t send it to the commercial printer.
    Thanks in advance for any help!

    Well I don't know for a fact that it is, but the customer is a major International Fortune 500 Company and this is an Installation sheet printed and included in one of their product packages, so I would imagine it is an offset press.
    Besides, if the commercial printer was using a commercial Laser printer, can't they print 2-sided? There is no problem when it is printed 2-sided, the images align because both margins are offset in the same direction. It is only when it is printed 1-sided (one side to each printing plate) that the problem becomes obvious because the offsets are in the opposite directions. (BTW, it is B&W)

  • Margin problem when printing on ipad from pdf app

    On 4500g there is no top margin and very small left margin when printing from pdf printer app on my ipad. Where can i set margins before printing?

    Hello Leonie1938,
    Welcome to the HP Support Forums!
    If I understood correctly, you are printing from an iPad to the Officejet 4500 G510g using a .PDF printer App. If this is correct, what is the App name? I searched and found an App called PDF Printer for iPhone for $2.99, is this the App?
    If you are not using a HP App, all I can offer is to clean the rollers on the printer. This is best done by following steps here: The All-in-One Does Not Pick Up or Feed Paper, Solution four.
    Cheers,
    JERENDS
    I work on behalf of HP
    Please click “Accept as Solution” if you feel my post solved your issue, it will help others find the solution.
    Click the “Kudos Thumbs Up" to the left of the reply button to say “Thanks” for helping!

  • KDE: margins incorrect when printing because of fit-to-page option

    I'm attempting to print a PDF file with Okular (happens with other KDE/Qt applications as well) to my HP Deskjet D2530 printer. The PDF has one inch margins on all sides, but when printing, additional space is added to the margins.
    The page prints perfectly using lp:
    $ lp /Path/to/PDF.pdf
    Should also note it prints perfectly with non-KDE applications such as epdfview.
    I turned on debug mode in CUPS to find what options KDE sends to CUPS. I narrowed it down to the "fit-to-page" option causing the issue.
    I can reproduce the incorrect margins exactly with this command:
    $ lp -o fit-to-page -o PageSize=Letter /Path/to/PDF.pdf
    Now the issue I'm having is disabling this. I see nowhere in the KDE print dialog to disable fit-to-page, and have searched CUPS' documentation for a way to disable it on that end, but could not find anything. Searching for this issue has similiarly turned up nothing. I've also tried adding "fit-to-page=false" to ~/.cups/lpoptions with no result. I can't be the only one who has dealt with this. Is there some configuration option I'm missing somewhere or should I report this as a bug upstream?

    hello!
    i have a similar problem:
    https://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php … 3#p1402373
    for me the fit to page cmdline option does not apply and the output is always bigger than one page ... same goes for print menues with the option to turn on/off fit to page ...
    Last edited by brrbrrbruno (2014-04-09 17:22:04)

  • Avoid adjustment when printing from Okular

    Hi,
    I've written some documents in LaTeX and noticed that when I print the PDF from Okular, the alignment of the page is wrong and the margin on the left is bigger than the one on the right. Also, the top and bottom margins are wrong, too. When watching the file on the screen everything is fine and even.
    I then installed the Acrobat Reader and printed the file again, leaving every adjustment option unmarked and the output is fine.
    So, is there a way to avoid site adjustment in Okular? I couldn't find any options regarding this problem.
    Thanks in advance!
    Last edited by Barghest (2012-05-22 07:37:59)

    A friendly bump

  • Margins problem when printing to PDF (Pages '09 v4.0.3 build 766)

    Hi,
    I don't know if this is connected to the latest Mac OS X v10.6.4 update, but some of my machines exhibit a very curious behaviour.
    + multiple pages A4 document
    + choose File > Print, click on "Save as PDF", under the PDF button
    ++ set pages 6 & 7 to print
    ++ set 2 pages per spread, so as to have Pages shrink the A4 document to somewhat A5, and have the two pages side-by-side on the same sheet
    ++ save the PDF
    Then, when I open the PDF with Preview, the margins are all wrong (i.e. too big, there's too much white running around).
    And from Preview's inspector, I can tell that the Page Size is set to US Letter, although in Pages both the document size AND the Printing Format are set to A4.
    The most curious part of the story is that my MacPro, my work MacBook Pro 13 and a white MacBook exhibit the problem, whereas my personal iMac 27" DOES NOT.
    And they are all running Mac OS X v10.6.4, with ALL the most recent updates, and the exact same version of Pages!!!
    I suspect that something has been changed in a framework somewhere, but I cannot figure out what it is...
    Any idea is welcome!
    Thanks,
    K2r

    I can do the same in TextEdit (although it's even more painful to control the margins!!).
    My problem is not that Pages won't put pages on one sheet; It's that the generated PDF does not respect the sheet physical size (A4 vs. US Letter), thus adding wider margins all around the document.

  • Set paper margins size when printing ...

    Hi,
    I'm using the following code to print an image from a component :
         Settings pageSettings = new Settings();
         pageSettings.setXScaleAsFloat( 0.28f );
         pageSettings.setYScaleAsFloat( 0.28f );
         PagePrintable printable = new PagePrintable( pages[pagActual], pageSettings, false );
         PrinterJob printerJob = PrinterJob.getPrinterJob();
         PageFormat format = printerJob.defaultPage();
    //     printerJob.pageDialog( format );
         format.setOrientation(PageFormat.LANDSCAPE);
         printerJob.setPrintable(printable, format);
         printerJob.print();
    How can I define the paper margins ?
    At this moment I have to use default one inch margins.
    Thanks,
    Alexandre Gil

    You can render on your page in any place you like. In your paint method just use the Graphics.translate() method to set the upper and left margin and then use Graphics2D.transform() and a scaled AffineTransform to adjust the width and height of everything:
    public int print(Graphics g, PageFormat format, int pageIndex) {
        Graphics2D g2d = (Graphics2D) g;
        g2d.translate(format.getImageableX(), format.getImageableY());
        AffineTransform at = new AffineTransform();
        at.scale(format.getImageableWidth()//*the width of your stuff*/, format.getImageableHeight()//*the height of your stuff*/);
        g2d.transform(at);
        // all your rendering goes here
    }Of course you can use values other than format.getImageable* for the values.
    Jeff

  • Margin problem when printing with canon printer

    When I try to print a pages document on my canon pixma ip4500 printer (which they sold me at the apple store when i bought the laptop), the bottom margin does not appear. There is a space only about half an inch under the last line of text. Everything looks fine on the screen, but i cant get to print it with a bottom margin. and i don't even know how to set it manually...
    ps, the printer isnt set for a 8 1/2 by 14 sheet, it really is for a 8 1/2 by 11
    Help me please!

    That’s going to depend on what the document consists of. If it’s a single element such as a graphic or PDF, reduce the size. If it’s text, you can use a smaller point size, slightly reduce paragraph spacing, make a headline smaller, etc. If it’s text and graphic, reduce the size of the graphic(s) a little. But first, set your document margins to agree with your printer margins.
    Walt

  • Wrong margin length when printing from JRC

    Hi,
    I have problem with printing reports using JRC with null margins. Everytime when I chose 0 as a  margin (i have tested it with left margin), after printing the margin is bigger then 0. If the report is printig from Crystal Report all margins are set correctly. Is there any minimal value that is set by CR4E JRC libraries when the report margin is set to 0? How can I change that?
    Regards,
    Andrzej

    Hi,
    I am facing the same problem. How do i print reports with margins set to ZERO??
    Kamal.

  • Margins issue when printing.

    I have used Acrobat Reader 10.0.0 to current and Acrobat Professional 10.0.0 to current with identical issues outlined below.
    The issue is with the printer margins as outline with a red circle below. Please note this has nothing do you with my printer/coppier or scaling (I have the same problem with 12+ devices). This is not a computer based issue (issue has affected 6+ systems all running windows (from xp (pro/home) to win7 32&64bit systems ranging from 2.5ghz, 1gb ram to 6core, 8gb systems). This is an issue with Acrobat. Please tell me how to fix this so I can attept produce product like a professional.
    I am open to any comment that adheres to the above restrictions, thank you in advance.

    Daniel Flavin wrote:
    Your screen shot clearly shows Shrink To Printable Area seleted in Page Scaling.
    Daniel, thank your for your reply; however, I am sorry, but I did note that this does not have anything to do with scaling (or at least appears to be). Below are a few more screen shots.
    Scale to fit with auto-rotate and center option disbled.
    No Scaling

  • Margins off when printing 11x38 on 13x40 pano paper

    i'm trying to print crane museo pano paper in LR3 from mac 10.5.8 on epson 2400
    also tried on PS3 with no luck.
    issue:
    print  produces a top and bottom 1" border which is correct. the printer  starts printing about 3" in from the edge. it should be 1"
    these are the steps that i'm taking
    1. set up paper size in
    2. i've tried the cut sheet and banner settings. it doesn't make a different. still won't work
    3. select custom profiles, sharpening etc in LR3
    4. print
    I Recently upgrade to leopard 10.5.8 from tiger
    Just uninstalled and reinstalled epson 2400 drivers
    tried printing from PS3 with same problem with borders
    both LR3 and PS3 preview image correctly
    I have printed same size image on same paper before with no issues??
    Epson hasn't a clue what the problem is.
    what am i missing?
    thanks,
    owen

    Photoshop uses the margins it gets from the printer driver.
    Photoshop prints to that area, and has no control over the exact placement.
    And I'm starting to wonder about Epson's current support staff.
    They don't seem to know a lot of things they should know...
    (it's a trend recently)

  • When I print a web page, how do I adjust the printe margins so that the headers and footers don't fall off the page?

    I have looked for a way to adjust the page margins for printing, but can't find it. I have found where to adjust what prints in the header and the footer. When I print, the headers and footers are so close to the edge, and sometimes half off the page edge at the top and the bottom, that I can't really read them. This didn't happen in the past. Maybe this has changed since the last update - I'm not sure. Is there a way that I can fix this, so that my headers and footers are readable?
    Thanks.

    Someone else reported this sound last September, but there wasn't any resolution to that thread: [https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/questions/938003 After upgrading to Snow Leopard on my Mac, Firefox makes typewriter or paper crinkling sounds when going to links and sites].
    Does it seem to be at all related to whether pages use Flash? Just wondering whether it is some kind of notification sound related to Flash's capabilities of using the webcam and microphone.

  • Howto change left/right margin when print

    In a report we defined a left margin of 2 cm and a right margin of 1 cm.
    When printing the report simplex everything is ok.
    But when printing the report duplex we want to change the margins. Odd pages should print "normal" - but the page on the back, i.e. even pages, should then be "moved" to the left. That means the left margin has to be 1 cm and the right margin 2 cm.
    How can we achieve this behavior?

    Hi Rainer
    For information on settings for Duplex printing please refer to the below link:
    [link|https://www.sdn.sap.com/irj/scn/go/portal/prtroot/docs/library/uuid/40e40899-721e-2b10-b084-c7ed76af46f1]
    Hope this helps!!
    Regards
    Sourashree

  • Preview not putting in margins when printing

    I have an HP6500 e709 (Duplex) printer that is capable of no margin printing that will accept any margin arrangement from zero up to half the paper size being used. I have a document that was set up in Pages with landscape margins set for: Left - .25", right - .25", top - .75" (no header), bottom - .75", footer - .75" (10 pt type) then exported to PDF in sections because each section has its own paging. The sections were then combined into one document using "Combine PDF", a free application. When I printed this document from Preview I noticed that both right and left margins on the printed page were .5" or or more which cut off both right and left parts of most lines and in one section skipping an entire left hand column. The individual sections print properly from Pages.
    Is this a problem with Preview?

    I have discovered that this may be a printer driver problem though there are different symptoms on different applications but is more related to the duplex printer capability.
    Sparkgapper

Maybe you are looking for