Printing cutting off sides of PDF

[hehe299792458]

I save webpages and emails as PDFs for later printing. The saved PDF pages are in letter size (my printer paper is in letter as well). I noticed recently (not sure when it started) that I need to scale it down to 97% for it to print successfully. If I print at 100%, then the top, bottom, left, and right edges are each cut off by a little.

Why is this?

 

[KALLT]

What do you mean by “a little”?

Most printers are not capable of printing on the whole paper, leaving margins on the sides. The scaling is done to make sure that the whole document is actually printed.

 

[ashleykaryl]

Printers very rarely print right to the edge of the paper unless you have a bordless option in the settings. Depending on the app you are using there is often an option for scale to fit. If you don't see that in plain sight it may be under the option for paper handling. That figure of 97% sounds about right if you don't size to fit as described above or have the option of borderless printing.