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Printing Word Documents changes margins and layout.

Hi

when printing an A3 document with images that is merged form our bespoke software it prints fine on most machines in the office. However, one machine running office 2013 (as all machines are) shows the print preview fine then as I press print it will give the usual error message that items are outside of print margins and then rearrange the images etc and ruin the whole layout of the document.

This doesn't happen on the other machines. I managed to resolve it before by choosing save us and saving as older versions of word, but I think this may just be a coincidence as it no longer fixes it.

The printer is a multifunction Canon Image Runner IR2880i

I would love some advice on this please as it is problematic.

Thanks

John
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I usually click onIgnore and print away...
It sounds like the printer preferences have been changed on that machine.
Delete and reinstall the printer and it should get the default settings from your print server.

Worst case, on the PC log in as local admin, stop the print spooler service then start it again, remove the printer drivers for that model. Log off and log back in as user. Add the printer and drivers. Print again.
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Ignore makes no difference as it has already changed the layout at that point.

I will try the suggestions about the printer driver thank you.
Check that the default paper size on the printer are not American paper sizes e.g. letter or ledger size instead of A4 andA3.
If they are, check your locale is not set to USA.
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Thanks, but it isn't the printer preferences. IT could well be a driver or a windows option, but it shows the print fine in the print preview, but the moment you press print the margin error comes up and the layout is changed in the preview. Regardless of if you ignore or not it messes up and prints out a layout that is all wrong.
Try printing to pdf then print that file to the physical printer. Does it still display the message?
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Thanks guys, I printed to a PDF and it did exactly the same!

Clearly this was a word setting then. I tried various but nothing worked so I reset the word options to default in the registry and it now works fine again.

NOt sure how to allocate the points on this one?
Good to hear all is fixed. You basically nuked the Word print settings and preferences so perhaps you could allocate points for comments that suggested checking them. As you did it yourself based oncomments, a B grade may be applicable
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Thanks will do
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I accepted it as this answer as this was the one that related to it being application settings and not print settings. From here I reset Word and all was working well again.