[WEB4LIB] Re: Navigator vs IE printing

[Randy Souther]

I just tested IE 4.5 Mac on a non-postscript Epson ink-jet printer, and all the
printing options are intact. It appears that the options are appended to the
particular printer's standard dialog box.

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

Email:  southerr at usfca.edu
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Bob Rasmussen wrote:

> On Thu, 10 Feb 2000, Randy Souther wrote:
>
> > 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.
>
> I wonder if the Mac version is simply taking advantage of a capability that is
> generally in PostScript printers, and generally NOT in non-PS printers (as
> you're like to have on your Windows machines)...?
>
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