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On my Windows 10 machine Firefox cannot print pages where images overflow pages.

bigleehimself
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Various online booking sites will format blocks of key information as large images and Firefox* never prints such pages correctly. The problem seems to occur when an image is split between one page and the next. I've attached two small images of the top of the page as displayed in Firefox and the print preview for that page. The page has two buttons ("Map It" and "add to Apple Wallet") that are forced off of page one but do not appear on page two. Page two prints as shown -- blank with only header and footer lines -- and the information that should be on page two (including any text) is omitted. I've had the same issue for several years. This includes several Firefox versions, several printer manufacturers (Cannon, Epsom, and HP), and a number of OS updates. I am absurdly loyal to Firefox (dunno why) but I keep having to switch to Edge whenever I need to print a complex web page. I keep hoping that the problem will be fixed.

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Version 99.0.1 Build ID 20220411174855 Running on Windows 10 print_printer Canon G3060 series Update Channel release User Agent Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; Win64; x64; rv:99.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/99.0 OS Windows_NT 10.0 19043

Various online booking sites will format blocks of key information as large images and Firefox* never prints such pages correctly. The problem seems to occur when an image is split between one page and the next. I've attached two small images of the top of the page as displayed in Firefox and the print preview for that page. The page has two buttons ("Map It" and "add to Apple Wallet") that are forced off of page one but do not appear on page two. Page two prints as shown -- blank with only header and footer lines -- and the information that should be on page two (including any text) is omitted. I've had the same issue for several years. This includes several Firefox versions, several printer manufacturers (Cannon, Epsom, and HP), and a number of OS updates. I am absurdly loyal to Firefox (dunno why) but I keep having to switch to Edge whenever I need to print a complex web page. I keep hoping that the problem will be fixed. *Name Firefox Version 99.0.1 Build ID 20220411174855 Running on Windows 10 print_printer Canon G3060 series Update Channel release User Agent Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; Win64; x64; rv:99.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/99.0 OS Windows_NT 10.0 19043
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jscher2000 - Support Volunteer
jscher2000 - Support Volunteer
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Historically, there are many style rules which Firefox has treated as creating unbreakable blocks of content. Instead of breaking them over multiple pages, Firefox fits as much as possible on one page and dumps the rest. Some of these have been fixed over time, but others remain. Without performing surgery on the page, it is difficult to work around this problem.

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Add-ons can sometimes help with this problem.

The Recommended extension Print Edit WE has an option on its toolbar to repair page breaks. https://addons.mozilla.org/firefox/addon/print-edit-we/

I have my own add-on that may be simpler, but I haven't compared side-by-side so I don't know whether it works as well: https://addons.mozilla.org/firefox/addon/printable-the-print-doctor/