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What to try after the steps in "Firefox prints incorrectly" ?

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Using Firefox 8.0 and Windows XP SP3.

If from a web page I select a block of plain text (no graphics, no outlandish formatting like drop caps or the like) and go to File | Print and choose to Print "Selected only" the text prints okay except that only the lower one-eighth (approximately) of the first line is printed. As if the first line started slightly above the top page margin and only the bottom parts of the letters were printed.

I find this when printing to my Brother laserjet and to my HP all-in-one inkjet. The problem is the same when trying different blocks of text from different pages on completely different websites. And exists regardless of how I set page margins for printing.

I do not have this problem when printing the same blocks of text from Windows Explorer. [Not that I ever use it, on principle, but I launched it tonight just to try and compare results.]

I have followed all the steps in the document titled "Firefox prints incorrectly" including editing prefs.js to no avail.

Any other suggestions would be very welcome.

Thank you!

Using Firefox 8.0 and Windows XP SP3. If from a web page I select a block of plain text (no graphics, no outlandish formatting like drop caps or the like) and go to File | Print and choose to Print "Selected only" the text prints okay except that only the lower one-eighth (approximately) of the first line is printed. As if the first line started slightly above the top page margin and only the bottom parts of the letters were printed. I find this when printing to my Brother laserjet and to my HP all-in-one inkjet. The problem is the same when trying different blocks of text from different pages on completely different websites. And exists regardless of how I set page margins for printing. I do not have this problem when printing the same blocks of text from Windows Explorer. [Not that I ever use it, on principle, but I launched it tonight just to try and compare results.] I have followed all the steps in the document titled "Firefox prints incorrectly" including editing prefs.js to no avail. Any other suggestions would be very welcome. Thank you!

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I wonder whether anyone can give me advice on the above problem, thanks. Have upgraded to Firefox 9.

Modified by eponym