PRINTER - Can't enlarge text (font point size)

Chip Fossa · Post by **Chip Fossa** » 23 May 2003 11:20 am

I have an HP Officejet 600 series all-in-one
print/scan/fax machine.

I went into VIEW and increased TEXT SIZE to LARGEST.

This had no effect at all on the font size.
It's gotta be printing-out on the lowest diminutive setting for fonts.

Almost need a magnifying glass to read it.

I searched all through the PRINT SETTINGS within HP Officejet Manager, and not one thing is listed as to how to increase the text size.

Anyway, just another aggravating thorn in the fantastic world of computers.

Does anyone have a clue as to what I could do here, to remedy this situation?

Thanks all...Chipper

Erv Niehaus · Post by **Erv Niehaus** » 23 May 2003 12:39 pm

You need to do your editing of fonts from your "write" program. I don't know which one you are using, maybe Microsoft Word. It's there where you adjust the size of the type, bold, font selection, etc. It will then feed the message to your printer.
Erv

Jim Cohen · Post by **Jim Cohen** » 23 May 2003 12:53 pm

Looks fine on my screen, Chippy.

Chip Fossa · Post by **Chip Fossa** » 23 May 2003 2:05 pm

Erv, I'm running both MS Word and MS Works.

Help me here.

And Jimmy C., I C you over there. You funny
guy. Hope to see you up at the MABash.

Well!!!, I still need some help.

Jim Smith · Post by **Jim Smith** » 23 May 2003 3:59 pm

It sounds like you're trying to print a web page directly from Internet Explorer. If so, you can't change the print font directly.

One workaround is to copy what you want from the web page and paste it into MS Word, Works, or WordPad. Change the font type and size to whatever you want in the program, then print.

Another workaround if you want most or all of the page is to do File - Save As... and choose Text File. Then open the text file into one of the above programs and modify the fonts.

Either way works pretty well plus you can pick and choose what you want to print instead of being tied to printing the whole page.

Chip Fossa · Post by **Chip Fossa** » 23 May 2003 8:28 pm

Thanks Jim.....NO..I was just trying to
print a SELECT from an email.

Here is what have popped up just now.

....Could not load C:\Program files\HP Officejet series 600\bin\hpojvdix.exe/h,
software error (timeout while trying to
initialize VDI)......

and as I was typing this up, the above
"Could Not Load" dicta kept popping up.

Never have seen this before! Another first.

Bobby Lee · Post by **Bobby Lee** » 25 May 2003 10:04 am

In HTML (the language of Web pages), the size of text was originally controlled with the "FONT" tag. FONT has a "size" attribute, with values ranging from 1 to 7. The idea was that a user would set the medium size to a size that was comfortable, and other sizes would be relative to that.

This wasn't enough control for the picky artistic types, who were used to having things appear exactly the way they wanted it. The "solution" was a technology called CSS (Cascading Style Sheets). CSS allows a page designer to set the absolute size of a font, in points. It's not a relative size, like the FONT tag method.

The browser's View/Text Size command only works on text that was NOT defined using CSS. In IE6, you can turn off the CSS feature by going to Tools/Internet Options and clicking the "Accessibility" button. There you'll see an option to "Ignore font sizes specified on web pages".

Hope that helps.

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Chip Fossa · Post by **Chip Fossa** » 25 May 2003 11:11 am

Thanks b0b,
I'll try that out. So far nothing has changed. I even removed/reinstalled Officejet
600, and that did nothing as well.

On this specific print task, what I wound up doing was SAVING AS a text file in Notepad. In there, I was able to increase the font size, and it printed out just fine.
But it wasn't that simple. The three quotes
did not all print out in one 'paragraph', but onto a second page. I wanted it all together. So I had to send an email to myself
with the original heading CUT, and now the 3 quotes came out as 1 specific entity.

Quite an ordeal, really.

Thanks again for that info. I'll see what it can do.

Chipper

Chip Fossa · Post by **Chip Fossa** » 26 May 2003 7:38 am

Well,
I went and changed that CSS setting, but
yet again, nothing moved.

It seems to me, in the past, and in Outlook
Express, all that was necessary to change the font was to go to VIEW and just click on
medium, large, larger etc.

This new teeny typeface just came about in the past week or 2.