different type of printers

[mike009]

Hello,

is there is a way to be sure that a document will have always the same layout when it's printed by different printer?

Ex: i have a template, this template will be used by many users , in many different locations. each location may have different printer.
some times some user got and warning message from a type of printer says that the margin ..... etc (don't know the message)

is there a way to control that by the code?

thanks in advance

[CreganTur]

Please tell use the exact error message you are getting so we can have a better idea of what the problem is.

[fumei]

Actually, the answer to:

"is there is a way to be sure that a document will have always the same layout when it's printed by different printer?"

is simple.

No.


That is the way Word works. It is totally, completely, utterly, unavoidably, tied to the printer driver. Different printer driver even using the SAME printer on a different computer, and the layout can change.

I have seen this. The person beside me, looking at the SAME document, printing to the SAME printer as myself, gets a slightly different result. Why? His printer driver version (for the SAME printer) was a little older than my version.

The document printed differently.

And that is how Word works. How it prints (and how it looks on-screen!!!) is completely tied to the printer driver used by the current computer.

[fumei]

I should add that if this is a serious issue, then you are stuck with using something like a PDF, rather than a real Word document.

[mike009]

Please tell use the exact error message you are getting so we can have a better idea of what the problem is.

There is no error.

sometimes for some printer, we got the message "The Margins of section 1 are set outside the printable area of the page. Do you want to continue?"

But i could manage to turn of the warning messages in the code.

but still, the layout is not the same in all document printed by different printer

[TonyJollans]

Just to reinforce, and perhaps add slightly to, what Gerry says.

It is true that that is the way Word works, but all Word is doing is showing you the differences that are caused by the printer driver. Word, itself, isn't doing anything except acting on external constraints and passing on information.

The message about margins is telling you that you are trying to output something to an area of the page that the driver says can't be printed on. If you answer "ignore", the printer will try - and maybe succeed - to print there but that is actually a different, if related, issue and it does not affect the layout of the rest of the page.

[fumei]

Tony, as usual, clarifies things nicely. I quite like:

"acting on external constraints and passing on information"

That really sums it up.