IE8 Print Only 1 Web Page

Question

There is a problem that seems pretty endemic to IE8 (google search), but I can't find a solution anywhere. I have a document that is moderately long and should print on 3 or 4 pages, but sometimes IE8 prints only the first page (in these cases, it also appears as page 1/1). If I pause the printer (so that I can see what is happening in the queue without wasting extra loads), then hit p several times (without refreshing the page or doing anything else in between), sometimes it sends all the pages for printing, sometimes only 1. If I use the print preview function for printing, it always prints all pages in order. I saw one possible solution for this, unfortunately useless for me - to get IE to work in compatibility mode with IE7. In fact, I do the opposite for these pages and make it work in IE8 mode (this is the company's internal site, so this is not a problem). I also updated my printer driver, and this problem manifests itself in XP, vista (and I think 7 did it too) with IE8. Has anyone found any solutions? cheers mh

Answer 1

Looks like an error without using a workaround, closing Q

Answer 2

User workaround

Workaround for the user:

• Open print preview
• Go to the last page of the document
• Print

As a side note: The behavior in our case was that IE printed “Page 1 of x” on the first page, and x the correct number of pages. But only the first page was printed.

Workaround for html designer

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

Answer 3

We had the same problem. The compatibility view really worked, but changed the form, so we could not print on our indicated paper (it had the logo of our university in the upper right corner). Removing all add-ons in IE8 worked temporarily, but the final and complete solution was upgrading to IE9.

I know that this is already about 5 years, but I thought that if someone else is faced with this problem, they do not need to spend hours trying to find a solution.

Oli