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Printing a *selection* from the forums - CNET? or me?

Dec 19, 2004 1:31AM PST

Wondering if anyone else has noticed this, or if it's just me Happy I'm posting it here in Forum Feedback because it appears to be a CNET issue.

Lots of times I wish to print out a response from a thread. I do as I have always done by highlighting the portion I wish to print, click *file* *print* and choose *selection* from my printer properties, then *ok*. Nothing different from before, and it works fine everywhere else I do this except here in CNET recently.

What I get now - no matter how carefully I highlight my selection - is a final extra page that has on it ONLY the banner advertisement that is seen at the top of the page (near the *tabs*). The advertisement changes, so I get whichever one is currently showing when I choose to print.

This is driving me nuts! It is a waste of paper and ink. I can work around it by putting in only the number of sheets I need for what I am printing, then cancel the error message from my printer that there is no paper loaded when it tries to print the banner ad. Or by always remembering to place a sheet of "scratch paper" in there to catch the ad. I shouldn't have to do that.

What is making that banner ad print when I know I am not selecting it?

I run Win XP Professional, SP2
Epson Photo 890 printer

TIA
--Marcia


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OK here,
Dec 19, 2004 2:32AM PST

Works fine for me, I just did it.
I use XPpro, SP2, IE, HP pse950 printer.

Perhaps just reloading your print driver may correct it (just guessing).

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Aha!!! Thanks, Chuck - it wasn't the
Dec 19, 2004 2:48AM PST

printer driver at all - but when reading your specs, I remembered that I had begun using Firefox as my browser recently. I did a highlight, print selection command in IE here, and Lo! and Behold! it worked just as before, printing out only the selection and nothing else.

IOW, it is only printing out the banner ad when I print from Firefox.

Still a weird thing, but at least I now have it narrowed down!! Grin

Thanks again,
--Marcia


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I was and still am having the exact same
Dec 19, 2004 3:39AM PST

thing happening. I haven't had time to investigate why, just been taking the printed CNet "ad" and sliding through to the printer paper feed to reuse as a print to the back side.

So it is Firefox doing it huh. Does seem like this started when I first used Firefox. Unusual!

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Glad it's not just me :))
Dec 19, 2004 4:17AM PST

Now if we could only figure out "why"


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Until someone has a solution to this
Dec 27, 2004 12:13AM PST

just copy what you want to any word processer,Notepad,Wordpad,Word etc. and print from there. I know it is a pain but it beats wasting paper!

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Thanks gearup
Dec 28, 2004 8:12AM PST

good idea for when I have the time to do so - which is most of the time actually - I just get lazy Grin


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