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How to Print

Printer settings for clean word search sheets on A4 and US Letter, with no cut-off letters.

Every puzzle has a free printable PDF: one page with the grid and the word list, plus a separate solution PDF with every word marked. Printing takes less than a minute. Here is the reliable way to do it.

Step by step

  1. Open any puzzle and click "Print the puzzle (free PDF)". The PDF downloads instantly, with no sign-up.
  2. Open the PDF and press Ctrl+P (Windows) or Cmd+P (Mac).
  3. Set paper size to A4 or US Letter. The sheet is built to work on both, so pick whichever is in your tray.
  4. Set scaling to "Fit to page", or scale to 100% if your paper already matches. Avoid "Shrink oversized pages" and custom zoom levels, which is where cut-off letters come from.
  5. Keep the orientation on portrait. All the sheets are portrait, and letting the printer choose landscape is the other common way to lose an edge.
  6. Leave margins on "Default" or "Normal". The sheet already has a safe margin built in.
  7. Print in black and white or draft mode to save ink. A word search is pure text and reads perfectly in grey.

Solution sheets

Each puzzle page also has a solution PDF with all the words marked on the grid. Print it separately, or keep it on the screen as the answer key while someone else solves on paper. Teachers usually print one solution per group.

Paper tips

  • Regular copy paper (75 to 90 g/m²) is perfect. Word searches are solved in pen or pencil and need nothing fancier.
  • If the puzzle will be solved with highlighters, slightly heavier paper (100 to 120 g/m²) stops the colour bleeding through.

Something still cut off? Tell us which printer and which puzzle, and we will look into it.