If you’re in the United States or Canada, standard printer paper dimensions for most documents is that of the standard letter paper size, which is 8.5 inches by 11 inches. In much of the rest of the world, it is A4, which is 297 millimeters by 210 millimeters.
Keeping this in consideration, how do I change the settings on my dot matrix printer?
STEP 1
- Control Panel -> View devices and printers.
- Control Panel -> View devices and printers -> right click on printer and select Printing preference.
- Choose userdefined -> Create new printer setting name as a “Custom” with width as 16cm & height 5cm and Save.
Secondly, how do I Print exact size? 12 Answers
- Go to Image / Canvas Size.
- Select By absolute size.
- At print size, type the width and height of the desired paper format (e.g. 21×29,7cm for A4)
- Set Anchor to Middle (if you want it centered on the page — if you don’t, you can use Rectangle Select and Move Selected Pixels to move it around afterwards)
Thereof, what is the size of dot matrix printer?
The most popular sizes are 279 x 241mm (11 x 9.5″) and 279 x 368mm (11 x 14.5″) which is for wide carriage machines (132 column). Only available for wide carriage machines and in single part paper. It it generally used to make reading easier when rows of figures go across the page.