Save Paper and Ink by printing A5 on A4 paper from IE

ballisticbrian

Save Paper and Ink by printing A5 on A4 paper from IE

Hi there, the title says it all really, can anyone help?

I print out a myhermes invoice about every hour and I'm getting through reems of paper.

I tried in the printer properties to say it was "A5" (obviously I don't have actual A5 paper) and what it did was print just an A5 slice of the print with half the writing missing off the edge of the page.

Any help appreciated.

Just to clarify, if I can print A5 across-ways across the page I can put the piece of paper through the printer again and print another invoice.

nikki_angel

I think you need page setup. Let me have a play...

nikki_angel

Will this link help?

http://blog.prominenthosting.com/2009/02/10/how-to-print-one-a4-page-as-two-a5-pages-in-microsoft-word/

No, don't think it will.

Back to the drawing board!

paddyrg

It's usually your printer driver that offers 2 pages on 1, etc. Try A4 settings in IE but then look at the advanced options when you go to print it - there may be a 'multiple pages per sheet' option. Certainly has been on many I've used.

nikki_angel

I think it's more that they want to print to A5 size on one half of A4 and leave the other half blank until the next time they print. I'm not sure if that's what you are saying too Paddy lol!

S0litaire

OK
Make and model of the printer
then we can tell you how to set it up for A5. ^_^

Mr_Toad

There used to be some software to do this but I can't remember for the life of me what it was called.

You changed the default printer from the actual printer to the program in question and could choose the number of pages per sheet, handy for draft prints.

John_Gray

Those attempting-to-be-eco-friendly organisations who have tried to print on one side of a sheet of paper, then recycled it and tried to print on the other side, days, weeks or months later, have found that this can be more trouble than it's worth because of nasty paper jams. This is more likely with laser printers than inkjets, but in both cases you need a good, straight 'leading edge' for it to work. And you're possibly depositing a small amount of toner from the already-printed sheet on the rubber rollers.

With IE (or with any other browser that I know of!) you don't have the option of holding one invoice waiting until the second one gets produced an hour later, and print them both together on a single A4 sheet. I'd be very tempted to see if your printer will cope with actual, physical, A5 paper which would solve the problem. A5 paper will be disproportionally expensive compared to the pandemic A4, of course.

All this assumes that you can actually read the squidgy letters and numbers reduced to half-size!

FireFox

Save Paper and Ink by NOT printing A5 on A4 paper from IE??

Of course the MSE way would be to save the invoice as a PDF file on your computer.

Use CutePDF to convert any webpage or other document to a PDF file which you can save or print out if you really need a paper copy.

It'll even do the A5 trick for you. Just select 2 pages per sheet in the CutePDF Properties.

S0litaire

FireFox wrote: »

Save Paper and Ink by NOT printing A5 on A4 paper from IE??

Of course the MSE way would be to save the invoice as a PDF file on your computer.

Use CutePDF to convert any webpage or other document to a PDF file which you can save or print out if you really need a paper copy.

It'll even do the A5 trick for you. Just select 2 pages per sheet in the CutePDF Properties.

I would have suggested saving to pdf, but think the OP is putting the invoices into packages so needs a paper copy ^_^