Works 95: Minimum Margin Settings for Some Common Printers (137080)

SUMMARY

The following article lists minimum settings for the Top, Bottom, Header, and Footer margins for some common printers. The measurement is in inches.

Printer                               Top  Bottom  Header  Footer
-------                               ---------------------------

Apple LaserWriter                    .18     .19     .11     .19
Apple LaserWriter IIF/G              .50     .51     .43     .51
Apple LaserWriter Plus               .18     .18     .11     .18
Brother HL-4/HL-8/HL-8e              .32     .23     .25     .23
Brother M1918                        .90     .73     .83     .73
Canon BJ10e                          .15     .73     .08     .73
Canon BJ100/200/600/4000             .19     .56     .12     .56
Canon BJ130                          .56     .65     .50     .65
Canon BJ300                          .06     .06     .00     .06
Canon LBP-4/LBP-8 II/IV              .47     .40     .40     .40
Canon LBP-8 III                      .46     .40     .39     .40
Citizen GSX 130/140                 1.07     .07    1.00     .07
Citizen 200GX                        .94     .31     .87     .31
Epson ActionLaser 1000               .32     .23     .25     .23
Epson LQ series                      .07     .07     .00     .07
HP DeskJet Plus/500                  .32     .57     .25     .57
HP DeskJet 500C/520/540/550C/560c    .40     .73     .33     .73
HP DeskJet 510                       .23     .64     .17     .64
HP DeskJet 1200C MS                  .25     .32     .18     .32
HP DeskJet 1200C PS                  .26     .28     .19     .28
HP LaserJet IIP                      .32     .23     .25     .23
HP LaserJet III                      .25     .32     .18     .28
HP LaserJet IV                       .32     .28     .25     .28
HP LaserJet V                        .32     .27     .25     .27
HP LaserJet 4M/4MV/5P/5MP            .23     .25     .17     .25
IBM Personal Printer II 2391         .06     .31     .00     .31
IBM 4019 Laser Printer               .23     .23     .17     .23
NEC Colormate PS40/PS80             1.09    1.08    1.03    1.08
NEC Jetmate 400                      .29     .58     .22     .58
NEC Colormate PS                     .98    1.19     .92    1.19
QMS-PS 410                           .25     .26     .18     .26

MORE INFORMATION

The printers were tested with the Windows 95 printer drivers.

The margins for most dot-matrix printers are .07" for the top, bottom and header. The margin for footer can be set to 0".

When setting up pages, Works takes into account the unprintable region of a printer. This information is supplied to Works by the printer driver and can be different for each printer. If you set the left and right margins to zero, Works takes into account the left and right unprintable regions when the document is displayed. In the From Edge section of the Page Setup dialog box, the value for the Header margin and Footer margin are the actual unprintable regions of the printer driver.

The third-party products that are discussed in this article are manufactured by companies that are independent of Microsoft. Microsoft makes no warranty, implied or otherwise, regarding the performance or reliability of these products.