What does the "Wide A4" setting do. HP Laserjet M477fdw

[Graham_Wharton]

On the printer setup webpage there is a setting "Wide A4".

All i can find out is that this increases the printable area on A4 from 78 characters wide to 80 characters wide.

With this set to "On" does this effectively reduce the left and right non printable areas, and if so, by how much.

I ask because I am printing using Avery L7169 labels which have the left hand edge of the label starting at 4.6 mm, which is way too close to the 4.2mm non printable area.

If I could get the non printable left and right margins down by a millimeter, that would give me some more headroom with those labels.

At the moment, my labels generated by Avery Design and Print have around 2mm additional background around each label to effectively give print to the edge support for the labels, but the left and right hand sides of my printed label sheet are effectively being cropped due to the printers non printable margins.

Any help appreciated.

[Valsimot]

The wide A4 setting is used when you have Letter size document ( or graphics) and you want to print it on A4 then printing area on A4 is set to letter size to avoid breakings and clippings due to the letter being a little wider than A4.

[Graham_Wharton]

Yeahh, I see. The problem I have is slightly different.

I have an A4 document with graphical content that goes to within 2mm of the edge. I want to somehow fool the printer into allowing me to print this close to the edge of an A4 sheet.

I have tried creating custom paper sizes, e.g 216x297 and printing my A4 sheet to that, but all i get is my content shifted 3mm to the left on the output page. If only I could send my A4 PDF page to the printer centered horizontally on a 216x297 page. I think that would work.

I've also tried messing with custom page sizes in a generic postscript print driver, but aborted this rather quickly.

[Valsimot]

You will not be able to do that because this printer has a print margin on all 4 sides 4,23mm and everything that is under that margin like in your case can't be printer because printer mechanics is not designed to print so near to the edge of the paper.

On A4 size 210x297, you must deduct 4,23mm on each size and printable size on A4 will be  201,54x 288,54 mm

[Graham_Wharton]

The printer can print on paper up to 216mm wide, so its not a hardware limitation. The 4.23mm margin on A4 is a restriction placed on the printing by the firmware/software of the printer.

Anyway, for anyone else trying to do this, here is a way to do it.

• Control Panel -> Devices and Printers -> Select any Printer -> Print Server Properties
• Change Form Settings
• Create New Form
• Enter Wide A4 as Name
• Enter 21.60 cm as width
• Enter 29.70 cm as Height
• Ensure all Margins are 0.00cm
• Save the Form

Install the Xerox Mobil Express Printer Driver. This is their Universal Postscript printer driver.

• Ensure your PDF to be printed is A4 page size
• Print the PDF to the new Xerox Printer
• Enter the IP address of your printer when prompted
• Ensure PDF is set to Actual Size
• Click Properties of Xerox Printer
• Printer Options Tab ->
  • Paper -> Other Size -> Advanced Paper Size
  • Output Paper Size -> Select Wide A4 216x297mm
  • Scaling Options -> No scaling, Center
  • Original Document Size -> Select A4 210x297mm
• Advanced Tab ->
  • Margins -> Set to None

Feel pleased as you see your A4 page printed on A4 paper with output printed way beyond the 4.23mm limits.