Getting a better printer may help, or it may not-it all depends on the capabilities of the printer.The (semi) age-old question of printing with full bleeds in office programs. This is not unusual it is due to the printer itself and not to Word. You may very well find that they vary by a millimeter or more. Grab a ruler and compare where the margins on each page occur. Make sure the Gutter margin is 0, and then print out five pages. Most printers are not terribly precise in their paper handling, and you can easily end up with horizontal drift of the paper as it goes through the machine. Of course, the problem could more than likely not be with Word but with your printer. Make sure the Gutter margin is set to 0 and then check to see how that affects your printed page. This is a value added to the inside margin measurement to move the output 'outward' on the page, toward the outside margin. The most likely culprit is the Gutter setting on the Page Setup dialog box. You also need to check whether you have some other setting that is affecting you margins. For instance, if your page layout is for letter-sized paper, but you are actually printing on A4 paper, the margins will never be right. If it doesn't, it is impossible to get the desired outcome. The first thing to check is that your page layout matches the paper on which you are printing. Laurence wonders if there is a special way to set identical margins on the same page. He then sets the margins manually, inside at 12mm and outside at 15mm, and that's the closest he can get them to 20mm, but they're still slightly different. He works in millimeters and when he checks 'mirror margins' at 20mm, the inside and outside margins are not only different, but nowhere near the specified measurements. Laurence notes that no matter what he does he cannot get the inner and outer margins on the same page to be identical.

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