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Question

Printer prints selected web page text in middle of page

Dec 20, 2013 10:42PM PST

My HP Officejet 4500 All in one printer prints selected text from web pages in the same location on the page, that it would have been if I had printed the entire web page, AND, if the web page is say 40 pages long, I often get 40 blank pages as well with the selected text halfway down a page in the middle.

It is cutting my mother's Christmas cookie recipe in half, printing six and a half lines at hte bottom of an otherwise blank page, in the same place that it put it when I printed the text above it, including another of my mother's Christmas cookie recipes. Then after eating an entire line, it prints the rest of the recipe at the top of the next page.

So if I actually want to print selected text, I have to copy and paste it into Notetab or a Word document! I don't think so!

Is there a way to fix this? I am hip to the fact that HP printers are increasingly nothing but junk. (They used to be good quality, but I've been generally completely disappointed with this one.)

Thanks!

Dora

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While this works fine here.
Dec 21, 2013 9:18AM PST

I'm using Chrome and Firefox. I can't tell what you are using.
Bob

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Printer prints selected web page text in middle of page
Dec 21, 2013 1:09PM PST

I'm using Firefox.

Firefox often doesn't act right, so I tried Chrome. Chrome appears to print things out in its own inimical, very strange and very huge font way.

Firefox is bug ridden; is there any chance this is a Firefox bug?

But then, you aren't experiencing it.

Is there any way to post an example of what it is doing?

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Let's say it is.
Dec 21, 2013 3:09PM PST

Firefox has a system to report bugs. My bet is some add-on is in play but I only have your words here. If it was a widespread problem I'd see it at the office and all over the web. My bet is that some addon/in is causing this.
Bob

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Not the problem
Dec 22, 2013 1:59AM PST

Actually I've had this problem for as long as I've had the printer.

Firefox has gone so buggy lately I don't even think they're properly maintaining it, so posting on their forums would only raise my blood pressure.

Dora

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Let's say that's it.
Dec 22, 2013 2:17AM PST

I wish I could replicate that bug so I could report it. Just recently with about version 25 I moved back to firefox for most web work. I wish we could work your problem but the clues are not here and I can't reproduce it as well as it seems fine on the dozen plus PCs at the office.

Something's up but let's say what you write is true. Use other browsers?
Bob

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You could try Dropbox or such.
Dec 22, 2013 2:41AM PST

This will allow you to post a screenshot or such.

Dafydd.