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    <p>Thanks for your help. It would seem that browsers are just useless in this respect.</p> <p>I've done some more testing and the conclusion seems to be:</p> <ul> <li>No browser is any good at printing point sizes.</li> <li>You can't assume users will see a width less than 1.25pt on a prinout.</li> </ul> <p>I tested variations of the following web page, adjusting the border point size each time. I printed with 'fit to page' turned off.</p> <pre><code>&lt;html&gt; &lt;body style="width:17cm; background-color:rgb(245,245,245);"&gt; &lt;div style="border:0.3pt solid black; width:100%; height:20cm"&gt;IE 0.3pt&lt;/div&gt; &lt;/body&gt; &lt;/html&gt; </code></pre> <p>These are the results of the minimum printable point size and what it looks like compared to a printout of lines from InDesign. I've included a few other notes, too:</p> <p>FF: 0.25pt, looks like 1.25pt. DIV width looks like it is 17cm, but because of FF's massive print margins the right-hand border gets cut off. It seems 16.5cm is the largest usable width. The BODY height fits the height of the page.</p> <p>Safari 5: 0.75pt, looks like 1pt. DIV width is 18.2cm and BODY width is 19.5cm - Safari appears to be fitting to page even though there's no indication that it would do this. The BODY height finishes shortly after the DIV height.</p> <p>Opera 11: 0.4pt, looks like 0.75pt. DIV width is 16.2cm and the BODY background only appears within the div - although the line of text, appears on a white background</p> <p>IE7: 0.4pt, looks like 0.5pt (as does 0.5pt). As with FF, DIV width looks like it is 17cm, but because of IE's massive print margins the right-hand border gets cut off.</p> <p>IE9: 0.1 works (and possibly lower), but still looks like 0.5pt. Otherwise same as IE7.</p>
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