Overriding default printer margins

I am having trouble controlling the margins on my reports. In the report builder i have them set as one thing, but when i run the report they get set to the default print settings on my machine of 1 inch. Is there a way to override a user's default printer settings when printing a report thorugh a browser??
Thanks,
Patrick

Hi Patrick
If I understand your problem correctly, Though you set the margin as say "0" in report, still you see a margin of 1.0 in the output.
If this is the problem, the reason is Reports takes the hardware margin of your printer into account and adds to the margin you set in report.
Generally this is what is the expected behaviour from the users
In Reports 9i, you would see a way of controlling this by command line ignoreMargin
Thanks
Rajesh

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