Changing Font Size to Print

I have tried the following techniques:

Ctrl + the mouse scroll to make the font bigger
Page>Font>Sizes
View>Font>Sizes

and the printer does not seem to be able to read it when printing on my computer that has Vista. On my second home computer, my printer reads the font sizes fine, but on the one with Vista, it's constantly at about a size 6 or 7. What am I doing wrong? Is it the printer? How else can I change the font size so I can print my emails and such and actually be able to read them without squinting?

Hi, ICECanada.

I can't really answer your question, but maybe I can at least point you in
the right direction.

As you may recall, OE (Outlook Express) was originally a part of IE
(Internet Explorer). In fact, the original name for OE was Microsoft
Internet Mail & News; that's why the OE executable still has the name,
msimn.exe. And the several generations of OE have all used the settings in
IE for some of their functions - and the printer fonts are one of those
shared functions.

So why is that important to your question? WLM is a significant rewrite of
msimn.exe, but I believe it still shares the printer font settings with IE.
We can change our on-screen fonts in WLM, but to change the printed output,
we have to find the right spot in IE and adjust it there. And it is a
non-intuitive location in IE - which I can't remember at the moment.
Perhaps some true guru can enlighten both of us.

While waiting, you might Google for font +printer +express; I got 240,000
hits just now! This one looks helpful, although I haven't tried it:
http://email.about.com/od/outlookexp...t/et112305.htm

RC
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R. C. White, CPA
San Marcos, TX
rc@xxxxxx
Microsoft Windows MVP
(Running Windows Live Mail 2008 in Vista Ultimate x64 SP1)

"ICECanada" <guest@xxxxxx-email.com> wrote in message
news:c287e381bba68228eb0fdebf42aa9d3c@xxxxxx-gateway.com...

To expand on what R. C. White has said:

The print size in WLM is set by the DISPLAYED FONT size in Internet
Explorer.

Yes, unbelievable thought it is, if you want to alter the print size in WLM
(or OE), you have to go to IE7 and use Page | Text Size and set it there.

It is completely mad, and for some reason has persisted since the earliest
days of OE and IE.

SteveT