laser + inkjet printers alter ms office document formatting

[rincewind001]

hi all, hope someone can help:
i have a small office network with each pc having a dell inkjet printer and also a dell mono laser network printer all are working fine except for the fact that an ms word document created with the inkjet (or any other inkjet for that matter) is automatically altered (page layout wise) when asked to print on the laser printer. i have checked all the usual things like page layout settings,margins,paper size etc. any clues anyone????????????????

also as an example a document is 157 pages long on laser printer and 151 on inkjet.

should i just use page breaks? will this alleviate the problem?
any advice will be gratefully received.

many thanx

phil buckle

 

[tf1]

That's because Word uses the printer's parameters to layout the document correctly for the active printer. For more information see:

http://word.mvps.org/FAQs/Formatting/TextReflow.htm

Regards: tf1