When I choose default to letter size in Lexmark E460dn printer, it bumps to legel, asks to load legal paper and then prints 3/4 page. I do not want to print in legal size. I want it to stay at letter.

Please determine what size you are trying to print (A4, Letter, Legal, etc.). The printer is requesting A4 sized paper in the maunal paper feeder becuase either you selected manual feed or the setting for the default try (usually tray 1) is not set to the correct paper size. In your case, make sure the green slide adjustment on tray 1 is set to A4.

Hello, navigate in the menus to Setup Mode, and put on the Auto continue. But all the paper type and format must be equal in Tray and MF.

Make sure to set the correct paper size when printing. Letter - letter; legal - legal size.

Well the printer is telling you to load "Legal Size paper, which is 8.5" X 14" paper.

More than likely, the application you are using is telling the printer to print the page on legal sized paper.

If you want the document to print on "Letter sized paper (8.5" X 11") then in the application, go to the File drop down and select "Page Setup". From within page setup's window, change the paper size to letter and then re-print the job.

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Your printer supports a wide variety of paper sizes. See Media guidelines for illustrations of proper paper orientation. The printer determines the size paper loaded in the trays by the position of the paper guides. Make sure you adjust the guides each time you change paper sizesYour printer can automatically sense when A4, letter, legal, executive media or B5, DL, and #10 envelopes are loaded in tray1. To do this, the Auto Size Sense setting must be set to On. Your printer default was set at the factory to either the US or Non-US default with the Auto Size Sense setting On.To change the Auto Size Sense setting to Off: 1 Turn the printer off. 2 Press and hold the Go and Stop buttons and turn the printer on. 3 Release both buttons when Performing Self Test appears. 4 Press Menu> or <Menu, until the Tray 1 Auto Size message appears. 5 Press Select. 6 Press Menu> or <Menu, until Off appears on the display. 7 Press Select. To return the Auto Size Sense setting to On, repeat steps 1 through 7 but, select On during step 6.

"MP" tray is refering to the top fold down tray on the front of printer (bypass tray) You might load paper in the bypass and see what it does?

Here is how to align your print cartridges

Using the printer control panel:

1 Load plain Letter-size paper.
2 From the printer control panel, press tools , and then press ok.
3 Press the arrow buttons until Align Cartridges appears, and then press ok. An alignment page prints.

Using Windows
1 Load plain Letter-size paper.
2 Do one of the following:
• In Windows Vista, click the windows globe (start button) .
• In Windows XP and earlier, click Start.
3 Click All Programs or Programs, and then select the printer program folder from the list.
4 From the printer folder, click Maintenance Align Cartridges.
5 Click Print.
6 Follow the instructions on the computer screen.

Using Macintosh
1 Load plain Letter-size paper.
2 From the Finder desktop, double-click the printer folder.
3 Double-click the printer utility icon.
4 From the Maintenance tab, click Print Alignment Page.
5 Follow the instructions on the computer screen.
If you aligned the cartridges to improve print

print menu - config and verify paper is being sensed correctly. If paper size in tray is not set correctly printer will ask where to print from

There could be a few issues causing this problem.
1. Your document size on the actual document you are attempting to print believes it is letter (which is the default).
To change this setting, you must tell the computer you wish to print on legal paper.

To do this in MS. OUTLOOK:
Put the curser at the top of the page
then...under 'File-Print-Preferences-Layout-Advanced-Paper size-change to legal (from Letter'
-slightly tedious...but follow along and this should help

2. The printer needs to be adjusted to hold the legal paper.
Open up the legal tray to adjust the paper holder to hold the paper snuggly...it slides roughly.

Hope this helps..if you need more assistance please ask...also please rate my solution.
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thanks
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You should configure TRAY 1 as Legal only.
and Tray 2 as plain letter.

Specially when you specify from what tray/paper type to print.

This can be easily configured from the Printer Properties within the Printers and Faxes section of the Control Panel.

Good luck!