Printing Statements – Beware their size!

I have one bank whose statements, while they show in a window as PDF, are embedded in HTML document so when you save the page, you get a useless, empty HTML document.

So I simply would choose print and “Save as PDF…” from the PDF button. That worked fine, I thought.

While I was entering my statements into Quicken, I couldn’t get any of them to reconcile. It was driving me nuts and I even called the bank. While on hold, I figured it out.

The bank’s statements are legal sized and Safari defaults the print setup to letter sized.

The Mac didn’t warn me about this, and in fact, if I looked closely, could see the print preview actually drawing outside of the print box and over the controls in light gray!

So, my documents were all cut off and by some chance, perfectly between statement entries, so I never saw the error.

Re-printing all of the statements in legal size solved the issue.