Printer and Page Setting Guidelines

• You should leave a margin of 0.25 inches on the sides and top and bottom of a page due to physical printer limitations.

• Most printers default to a mode that can only print on a portion of 8.5 x 11 paper. Your printer for example, may only be able to "address" an 8.0 x 10.7 inch portion of the paper.

• The print head must have enough time to accelerate for example and get up to a constant speed before spraying ink and must decelerate at the opposite side of the page, creating the left/right borders. The paper itself must be able to load and be moved accurately by the rollers, which creates the top/bottom borders. These limitations mean that there is a "printable area" on the page that is smaller than the paper itself, and that this printable area is an area inside which the printer can operate optimally to produce the highest quality prints. There are often driver options that can affect these limitations.