Prints getting cut off or shrunk?
Adjust Your Printers Settings: For many of the printables here at Mint Printables (and other sites), you may need to adjust your printer margins as well as remove the header and footer. The reason is that most browsers have different default settings, and even printer type etc. can all effect it. There's no easy way I've found yet to be able to make the images print perfectly without someone having to change settings. Sorry, I wish I could, luckily it's easy for you to adjust the settings for yourself. Visit the links above if you're unsure how / what to adjust.
Try Enabling "Shrink to Fit": If you've adjusted your margins and it's still getting cropped during print, it's possible that it's because some printers insist on a larger margin than others, so you may have to enable 'shrink to fit'. (That may not be the exact wording depending on your operating system, browser or brand of printer, but there is usually something similar. Take a look around your settings and I'm sure you'll find it.)
Download The Image Instead: Another option is to download the images (either right click and choose 'save image' or by clicking the 
download link provided and print it from another program on your computer. The Windows Picture and Fax View offers many options using the Photo Printing Wizard and may be able to give you a better final printout than your browser. For Apple users, I've printed quite a few from Mac's default Preview application and they turned out beautifully.
Other Common Causes:
- Check that you are using the right size of paper, I've tested mine on standard 8.5 by 11 inch paper, smaller paper may result in prints getting cropped or cut off.
- Check that your printer and / or browser preferences are set to the right size of paper. Sometimes printers default to using the last used setting and (depending what you printed last) that may not be the behaviour you want.
- Automatic Image Resizing: Some browsers will in some situations scale the image to fit within the browsers viewing area and if you print the image before you resize it back to the actual size it may print much smaller than is intended. While this shouldn't happen if the printables are viewed from within a page on Mint Printables website, it will happen if the image is viewed alone. Many browsers will resize to actual size by simply clicking the image and / or allow you to disable this feature in the preferences.
How to avoid printing anything but the image.
For cleaner prints, you may want to change your browser settings to remove the extra text printers add to the pages (ie. the address of the printed page, how many copies etc.). If you're not sure how to do that, here are the instructions for removing the header and footer from your final prints in Windows, OSX Leopard and OSX Tiger.
The print, download and any other items on the page will not show up on your printed copy as long as your browser supports css print media. Don't worry if you don't know if yours does, all the ones I tested got this right, so it should give you a clean copy and help save your printer ink ;).
Printout showing the background page?
Some browsers (Firefox for example) may print the background page instead of the actual printable if you use the print button on your browsers toolbar or use File -> Print... If this is happening, make sure to use the print button provided on the webpage (it looks like this: 
) instead of the print button on your browsers toolbar. If the problem persists, download the image and print from there.
Notes for Opera users
On Mint Printables, Opera users will have to open the image in a new tab to print it. Unfortunately Opera doesn't have the ability to print iFrame contents (it prints the background page instead.) If you're using Opera, there should be a link to open the image in a new tab on the page, if not right click over the image, and choose "Open image". You should now have only the image in that tab, then click the print button. Another option is to save the image by right clicking directly over the printable image and choose "Save image..."