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greende
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Feb 11, 2017

Printing Problems

I need some help. After spilling an adult beverage on my old laptop (waste of good Guinness), I bought a new HP Laptop. We have an HP Photosmart 6510 printer. When I try to print something from a web page, it comes out with square boxes all over the place. See attached example. Now, if I take that same file and download it to my computer and then print it, it comes out perfectly. Is there some setting that I need to adjust to get it to print directly from the source? Appreciate any help.

  • I use FireFox and it opens Yahoo automatically as my home page. I have this and other websites bookmarked in Yahoo. I opened the URL that this document is located and there is no book icon that I can see. The location of this document is cardigancorgis.com/NS2017/Premiums/Cardigans.pdf

    FireFox IS the browser, its the software on your PC

    Yahoo is your homepage and the website you are visiting

    Cardigans.pdf is not a webpage
    it is a Document stored in PDF format
    and then either displayed on your display via a browser plugin OR converted on the fly and sent to you page by page as you scroll

    to properly print pages of a PDf file
    you need to Download and open the file
    and print the pages you want
    which you have already learned how to do

    "prt sc" may or may not give you a correct print out, of one page at a time

    you only have to try, to find out
    if you only need a couple pages, it worth trying

    if you need the whole thing, there is no shortcut or better method than down loading then printing

    "prt sc" is a button on your keyboard
  • With Firefox as the browser, where does Yahoo come into play?

    Here's a tip to try: On many (but not all) pages, if you look at the far right hand side of the URL address bar, you will see a tiny 'open book' icon. If you click on this, it will put the page into "reader view". Now you can easily print the contents of the page.
  • I'm using FireFox with Yahoo as my browser. I am not sure what you mean by print option. A problem with this is that this is one of 20 pages so print screen would not be feasible.
  • Html control codes

    What Brower are you using, you should be able to get a printable aka print ready page to display in the browser
    Then do a print page
    Which menu print option are you using

    Print screen should give you a duplicate , which is pc command not a browser command
  • Sorry, here is the problem page. The previous one is printed from the file.

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