Navigator vs IE printing

[Randy Souther]

> The one reason I've kept Netscape around instead of switching to IE is
> printing.  Although I am annoyed sometimes by the fact that Netscape
> reloads the entire page before it prints it, IE seems to have a problem
> printing wide pages (above 640 pixels) which often includes products like
> InfoTrac and ProQuest.  --

Interestingly, I think the printing features on IE 4.5 for the Macintosh beat
anything else. In the print dialog box you can check off options to print or
not print backgrounds, images, headers & footers; and more significantly, to
"shrink pages to fit."  Whenever we have a patron who can't print out a page
due to its dimensions, IE 4.5 on the Mac always does it perfectly where IE 5
on the PC and Navigator on either platform fail.


Randy Souther
Reference Technology Librarian
Gleeson Library | Geschke Learning Resource Center
University of San Francisco

Email:  southerr at usfca.edu
Phone: (415) 422-5388