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Mad Halfling
Mad Halfling

Reputation: 968

IE8 Only printing page 1 of webpages

Got a problem that seems to be fairly endemic with IE8 (searching on Google) but I can't find a solution anywhere. I have a document that is moderately long and should print to 3 or 4 pages, but sometimes IE8 only prints the first page (it also lists it as page 1/1, in these cases). If I pause the printer (so I can wee what's happening in the queue without wasting loads of paper), then hit p several times (without refreshing the page, or doing anything else in between), sometimes it submits all the pages to print, sometimes only 1. If I use the print preview function to print, it always seems to print all the pages ok. I have seen one possible solution to this which is, unfortunately, useless to me - to force IE into IE7 compatibility mode - I am, in fact, doing the reverse for these pages and forcing it into IE8 mode (it's an internal company site, so this isn't an issue). I've also updated my printer driver, plus this issue exhibits itself over XP, vista (and I think 7 has also done this) all with IE8. Has anyone found any solutions to this? Cheers MH

Upvotes: 4

Views: 6013

Answers (3)

Oli
Oli

Reputation: 1

We've had the same problem. Compatibility View did work but changed the formating so we were unable to print on our specified paper (It had our University Logo in the top right). Removing all Add-Ons in IE8 worked temporarily however the final and complete solution was to upgrade to IE9.

I know this is around 5 years late but I thought if anyone else comes across this issue they don't have to spend hours trying to find a solution.

Oli

Upvotes: 0

rboehme
rboehme

Reputation: 626

Workaround for user

A workaround for the user would be:

  1. Open the print preview
  2. Jump to last page of document
  3. Print

As a side note: The behavior in our case was that IE was printing "Page 1 of x" on first page, with x being the right number of pages. But only the first page was printed.

Workaround for html designer

Set <meta http-equiv="X-UA-Compatible" content="IE=EmulateIE7"> in your page.

Upvotes: 1

Mad Halfling
Mad Halfling

Reputation: 968

Looks like a bug with no usable workaround, closing Q

Upvotes: 0

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