This thing was nagging me all morning, and I did some more Googling. Came up with this link:
http://forums.microsoft.com/msdn/sho...&tf=0&pageid=1
(you need to scroll down to find a post from "Anonymously Me" with a timestamp of 21 Jul 2007, 10:51 PM UTC. I'll cut'n'paste the content here just in case (make sure that the registry fix gets entered in one line):
Here's a fix to default printing to 100% instead of "shrink to fit". Only problem is that it requires users to apply this.
users with ie7 need to install this hotfix
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/931768/en-us
the hotfix above contains several fixes, including
http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx/kb/932538/
After applying the hotfix, u need to add the registry value. u can copy and paste this in command prompt to update it
reg add "HKLM\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Internet Explorer\MAIN\FeatureControl\FEATURE_STF_Scale_Min" /v iexplore.exe /t REG_DWORD /d 100 /f
restart the browser and no more shrink to fit, unless the user manually specifies it. this is the way it should be by default in my opinion