On 21/09/2014 17:51, The Natural Philosopher wrote:

That is supposed to be encoded in the document.

The margins are encoded in the document. But Word takes the "margins
this document wants" and tries to shoehorn that requirement into the
default printer's capabilities, or rather the capabilities that the
printer driver lets Word know about. You end up with a very uneasy
mashup of the two.

Many is the time we have ended up only being able to get the upper-hand
on Word printing by printing to PDF then printing the PDF, as an image
if necessary. Which process itself sometimes needed the PDF to be copied
from the machine it was created on to the one that has a suitable
printer attached.

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Rod