Printing web pages 'cuts' them up

[Youssef Makki]

Hi everyone,

When I print web pages from Firebird, its like being printed on 1 big
roll of paper and then being cut into A4's; If a picture for instance
does not fit on the paper or what remains of it, I get half the image
printed on 1 page and the rest of it continued on the other. What causes
this to happen, and is it something one can change?

I have an HP Deskjet 656C on /dev/usb/lp0 using the hpijs driver with
"Convert Text to Postscript" being the only option checked in "Driver
Options".

Thanks!

[Bevan C. Bennett]

Youssef Makki wrote:
>  Hi everyone,
>  
>  When I print web pages from Firebird, its like being printed on 1 big
>  roll of paper and then being cut into A4's; If a picture for instance
>  does not fit on the paper or what remains of it, I get half the image
>  printed on 1 page and the rest of it continued on the other. What causes
>  this to happen, and is it something one can change? 
Not that it'll neccessarily help you, but the webpage author is supposed 
to be able to control this sort of thing using a CSS2 style sheet 
assigned for "print media" and properties like "page-break-before" and

"orphans".

[Youssef Makki]

I'll try to print other pages, the problem I mentioned is from a
specific website. I should probably give Mozilla a shot too. I thought
it would be a driver / postscript thing (my knowledge of how the print
system works is very limited).


On Wed, 2004-02-04 at 15:47, Bevan C. Bennett wrote:
>  Youssef Makki wrote:
>  > Hi everyone,
>  > 
>  > When I print web pages from Firebird, its like being printed on 1 big
>  > roll of paper and then being cut into A4's; If a picture for instance
>  > does not fit on the paper or what remains of it, I get half the image
>  > printed on 1 page and the rest of it continued on the other. What causes
>  > this to happen, and is it something one can change?
>  
>  Not that it'll neccessarily help you, but the webpage author is supposed 
>  to be able to control this sort of thing using a CSS2 style sheet 
>  assigned for "print media" and properties like "page-break-before"
> and 
>  "orphans".
>

[Youssef Makki]

Could you possibly elaborate on that Bevan? The webpage author is aware
of this and would love to know any solutions.
Thanks!


On Wed, 2004-02-04 at 15:47, Bevan C. Bennett wrote:
>  Youssef Makki wrote:
>  > Hi everyone,
>  > 
>  > When I print web pages from Firebird, its like being printed on 1 big
>  > roll of paper and then being cut into A4's; If a picture for instance
>  > does not fit on the paper or what remains of it, I get half the image
>  > printed on 1 page and the rest of it continued on the other. What causes
>  > this to happen, and is it something one can change?
>  
>  Not that it'll neccessarily help you, but the webpage author is supposed 
>  to be able to control this sort of thing using a CSS2 style sheet 
>  assigned for "print media" and properties like "page-break-before"
> and 
>  "orphans".
>