274460 - Hard set margin of 0.25" persists

Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 221706

(Core :: Printing: Output, defect)

Description

[tfrank]

When printing from the Mozilla browser it is not possible to have print margins
smaller than 0.25 inches. If you zero out all of the page margins and print the
page, you are still left with 0.25" margins. If you set the margins to 0.5" then
the printed page actually has a margin of 0.75". This is not a desired behaviour
as setting the page margins SHOULD reflect the settings in the dialog box. You
shouldn't have to "magically know" all margins will be 0.25" bigger.

This is causing a problem trying to print Avery labels from an HTML page because
the margins must be set to 0.17" which is well within the printable area of the
printer. The margins can be set fine in other applications such as Word.

How does one remove this hard set 0.25" margin behaviour?

Comment 1

[Mats Palmgren (inactive)]

Dupe of bug 221706?

Comment 2

[tfrank]

(In reply to comment #1)
> Dupe of bug 221706?

Yes, I would say I duped that one. Could not find another reference to this
problem for the life of me. But I tell you, it definately is not yet fixed. The
problem persists in the 1.8 alpha 5 on Windows 2000/XP.

Comment 3

[Boris Zbarsky [:bzbarsky]]

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 221706 ***