Printing From Internet

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Question: Recently changed from dial-up AOL, to Hi-Speed Satelitte Internet Explorer. Now when I print from the internet the pages are in HTML. (When I printed from Internet utilizing AOL, received regular page.) I'm sure there's a setting that needs to be changed, but I don't know where or which one. Can anyone assist?   Thanks - Bonnie

NemesisDB · Answer

what do you mean that the pages are in html when you print them?

NemesisDB · Answer

and while viewing the webpage normally you are just clicking the print button within internet explorer?

martinezbm · Answer

Instead of printing just a sentence, ie - Hi there how are you - from the internet I actually have print out

Hi there how are you

So the entire screen of what I would like to print from the internet such as a recipe or in most cases a shipping label, prints in HTML language.

Hope that makes sense - any help with this would be greatly appreciated.

Thanks - Bonnie

martinezbm · Answer

Yes I usually click file - then print, my printer screen comes up and I hit print again. All within Internet Explorer.   Bonnie

NemesisDB · Answer

can you try print-preview to confirm that it looks like that?   can you tell me the webpage that you are trying to print and experiancing this with?     I can't really replicate this behavior (other than by clicking view source and then printing that).  Do you have IE6 or IE7?

martinezbm · Answer

Any webpage I look at and print will give me the HTML code. I can try the print pre-view. And I'm not sure which I have IE6 or IE7, but I'll check.

RoHe · Answer

Others have had this problem with IE6 and IE7:
http://www.mcse.ms/archive/index.php/t-1914500.html
http://www.developerfood.com/printing-a-web-page-only-prints-html-code/microsoft-public-internetexplorer-general/de6b0aaa-f602-4944-ac02-91cfb0e32dbd/article.aspx

Here's what someone said fixed IE7 (might be same proceedure for IE6):
Make sure IE7 is the default browser. Select START>SET PROGRAM ACCESS and
DEFAULTS. I found that all the defaults were still set to non-IE7 settings
(ie, AOL was still the setting).

Also, check the file type associations to print HTML documents. Open
Windows Explorer, select the TOOLS>FOLDER OPTIONS menu, FILE TYPES tab, and
scroll down to URL. Select the ADVANCED BUTTON, choose the PRINT command, and
click the EDIT button. The command to print should read something like:
rundll32.exe C:\WINDOWS\system32\mshtml.dll,PrintHTML "%1"
If you've already set the default browser to IE7, this print command should
already be changed for you..

That's all it really took to clear the problem. Obviously, you'll want to
uninstall as much of AOL as you possibly can (it's ALL OVER your computer)
before doing this.

Ron

martinezbm · Answer

Well, that's exactly what the problem was. The internet stuff was still going through AOL, once I changed it, everything has been printing just fine!! Can't thank you enough for your help!   Bonnie

RoHe · Answer

:)

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