How to adjust margins on HP8600 printer?

[Tea-Lady]

I have a booklet (menu) saved on my HP which I print wirelessly on my HP8600 injet Pro.  It worked fine on my previous printer, but this one assigns a o 1" margin all the way around!  It will not let me adjust the margins on the Page Setup.

I tried the reset by unplugging from wall and back of printer and plugging directly into the wall.  - Still having issue with margins.

Any ideas?  It is forcing the font size so small that my customers cannot read our menu!  Yikes!

[Dragon-Fur]

@Tea-Lady

Commentary 

Whether you can adjust the margins depends on which software you are using to manage / create / edit the menu file.

If the menu file is in PDF format, then the margins cannot be adjusted using Adobe Reader DC software to submit the job to the printer.  Acrobat apparently allows some form of margin adjustment using Crop Pages using "set page size".

Reference:  Change Margins size in PDF (Adobe Reader DC) ?

If the menu file is in Word format (.docx), then you can adjust the margins in the Word document.  As long as you do not exceed the margin requirement in the printer Specifications > Paper Handling > Print Margins, you can print the file with a smaller margin.  Beware of having your footer / header areas within that margin minimum, too.

If you have edit capability (can edit the document), consider using a smaller font to start with.  For example, the "Arial" font is larger at size 12 than is the Calibri font at the same size.  Using smaller fonts sounds counter inuitive but doing so might work because the menu page content takes up less room.  For example:  Consider reducing the size of your Heading fonts - this gives everything else on the page a bit more room. 

 Finally, booklet format is going to look "small" on most paper sizes.

Think about reducing the amount of content on each page of the menu so you can use larger fonts.

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