Print/Preview does not look like web page, instead looks...

I'm using IE7 on WinXP PC. Was at this web site earlier in year and it
printed fine, in a "page layout" format exactly like the website appears in
browser:

http://www.ge.com/company/index.html

But when went back today and past few days, it prints text-like and
object-like, more like a Word document where text is mostly times-roman or
arial, and every object is "in line" like this...

gif
text
text big
image
text
text small
text
image
text

Doesn't matter which printer I use, and I already checked/changed basics
like "print background", use encoding=Western, etc.

Links from this website go to other websites at same company, and 'some'
print fine, exactly as they appear.

Any suggestions would be greatly appreciated, so can print/preview web pages
exactly as they appear in browser.

Thanks,
G

 

Set Program Access and Defaults: Select IE7 as your default browser.

 

Thanks for suggestion on setting Program Access and Defaults...

I tried that but didn't seem to help. Did this... Start > Program Access...

Also tried re-setting it... Start > Program Access... > (o) Custom > Choose
a default browser (o) Internet Exp [x] Enable Access to this prog

 

Hi,
This print/print preview issue at http://www.ge.com/company/index.html also
happens with IE6, Firefox 1.0, Firefox 2.0 and IE7.

The page is using a different Style Sheet (CSS) depending on the browser
detected.

From the page source:
<!--[if IE 7]><link rel="stylesheet" type="text/css"
href="../html_view/css/ie7.css" media="all" /><![endif]-->
<!--[if lt IE 7]><link rel="stylesheet" type="text/css"
href="../html_view/css/ie6.css" media="all" /><![endif]-->
<!--[if lt IE 6]><link rel="stylesheet" type="text/css"
href="../html_view/css/ie5.css" media="all" /><![endif]-->
<!--[if lt IE 5.5]><link rel="stylesheet" type="text/css"
href="../html_view/css/ie5_0.css" media="all" /><![endif]-->

Print preview appears (with all of those browsers) to ignore all CSS so the
HTML elements are simply stacked.

In other words, the problem isn't on your end. There's something wrong with
the webpage/website.

Hope this helps,
Don
[MS MVP- IE]

 

[Nice sleuthing, Don!]