Hey Forum,

this is ridicoulous...I cant get my bottom margin to work right.

I have a brandnew layout and am testing printing "to the bottom of an A4 page".

I put one big Text item on the layout filled with "test test test " about 10000 of them. All in all it goes over the bottom of the page onto the next page (561x904 pixels just for info).

I then print page 1.

The Margin it leaves at the bottom is EXACTLY 21mm. Thats much to much for what I want.

But I have an example of an old old old FM Printout clearly showing that a margin of just 10mm was achived a long time back.

In Printsetup I correctly choose A4 Format.

I have tried to play with "Layout->Layout Setup->use fixed page margins" (on as well as off) but if I set the margin at the bottom to 10mm it complains that some margins are smaller than the minimum allowed. Then it STILL prints with a 21mm bottom margin.

My Printer is an HP2300d.

Why cant I print to the very bottom of the paper? Is my printer restricing this? Where can I fiddle with that? Theres loads of room left to print at the bottom... At least further than a huge bottom margin of 21mm would be nice... any ideas anyone?

Is my printer restricing this?

Probably. If you set fixed page margins to 0 (zero), Filemaker will complain it's less than allowed by the printer. So it does know about the printer's limits - or at least it thinks it does.

You are be right cuz I tried a different HP printer and there it works. So now if I could find where in my Printer settings it specifies the margins...cant seem to find that anywhere in the properties...

My guess would be the margins are hard-coded in the printer's driver or directly in the ROM.