At 14:32 09/03/2019 -0500, Julian Thomas wrote:
On Mar 9, 2019, at 12:32, Brian Barker wrote:
Remember that many (most?) printers cannot print to the very edge
of the paper, so you need some blank margins anyway. If, as you
suggest, you are going to share this document, remember also that
the margins need to be big enough for your consumers' printers, not just yours.
Exception is when the doc is only going to be shared as .doc .odt or .pdf.
Sorry, but no: the format in which the document is shared is
irrelevant. Any format can be displayed on screen with material to
the edge of the document, but if it ends up being printed it is the
printer's limitations that must be considered. The questioner did not
suggest that the final document was never to be printed; in any case,
how would she know that no-one wanted to use it in this way?
Also if you are using a smaller paper size.
No paper size is small or large in an absolute sense! (Is a "smaller
paper size" shorter than a piece of string?) And the restriction
applies even if printing is performed on paper smaller than the
largest that any printer can handle. The main problem is that it is
more or less impossible to guarantee that the printed image lands
precisely on the paper, especially with low-end printers likely to be
used in the home or office. Any pigment thus deposited instead on
supporting rollers creates unpleasant set-off. Professional printers
arrange printing to the edge of the paper by printing slightly
oversized images on even more oversized paper and trimming it to size
afterwards.
Brian Barker
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