HTML page to Print - How to manipulate the printer settings prior to printing automatically

Question

My client wants their client to be able to print the results of an html page in a printer friendly format so using media queries and css we created a print stylesheet. When we look at the page in print preview, the printer sets the document up to be at 100%.

Unforunately at 100% printer size the document resizes everything to stretc acrossed and the page breaks but at 50% printer size everything is in tact, also automatically the printer setting are set up to not have it checked to allow images and background images. How can I force it to make it so that when a person clicks print in this specific html page that it forces the page to render at 50% so that it shows everything and that it forces it to show images and background images. So that the page at the end prints the way we want it to print.

Answer 1

I suggest using exact page size you want.

@media print 
{
   @page
   {
    size: 5.5in 8.5in;
    size: landscape;
  }
}