diff --git a/scripts/export.checks.test.ts b/scripts/export.checks.test.ts
index cc64200d..ff6e7d8a 100644
--- a/scripts/export.checks.test.ts
+++ b/scripts/export.checks.test.ts
@@ -130,7 +130,7 @@ describe('exported content width', () => {
 
 	test('the export cap loses to the print block, so the PDF route is unchanged', () => {
 		// `@media print` in styles.css already forces `.markdown-body` to
-		// `max-width: 100% !important` with its own .75in padding, and that block
+		// `max-width: 100% !important` with its own 1cm padding, and that block
 		// travels into the export with the rest of the sheet. Printing an exported
 		// file therefore never saw the 900px and must not start seeing the setting
 		// either — the two routes stay separate concerns.
@@ -138,7 +138,7 @@ describe('exported content width', () => {
 		const printed = declarationsFor(css, 'max-width', 'print');
 		assert.ok(printed.length >= 1, 'the print block must still cap .markdown-body');
 		assert.deepEqual(printed.at(-1), { value: '100%', important: true });
-		assert.deepEqual(declarationsFor(css, 'padding', 'print').at(-1), { value: '0.75in', important: true });
+		assert.deepEqual(declarationsFor(css, 'padding', 'print').at(-1), { value: '1cm', important: true });
 	});
 
 	test('the app stylesheet copied into an export does not out-rank the cap', () => {
@@ -801,11 +801,12 @@ describe('oversized media in print', () => {
 	const printBlock = extractPrintBlock(styles);
 
 	// Paper geometry the cap has to satisfy. `@page { margin: 0 }` makes the page
-	// box the whole sheet, and `.markdown-body` supplies 0.75in of padding top and
-	// bottom, so the printable column is the sheet height minus 1.5in.
-	const LETTER_PRINTABLE_IN = 11 - 1.5;
+	// box the whole sheet, and `.markdown-body` supplies 1cm of padding top and
+	// bottom, so the printable column is the sheet height minus 2cm.
+	const MARGINS_IN = 2 / 2.54;
+	const LETTER_PRINTABLE_IN = 11 - MARGINS_IN;
 
-	const A4_PRINTABLE_IN = 11.69 - 1.5;
+	const A4_PRINTABLE_IN = 11.69 - MARGINS_IN;
 
 	/** Print rules whose body sets `property` (never a vendor-prefixed variant). */
 	function printRulesSetting(property: string): { selector: string; body: string }[] {
diff --git a/scripts/export.spec.ts b/scripts/export.spec.ts
new file mode 100644
index 00000000..b7b9d26c
--- /dev/null
+++ b/scripts/export.spec.ts
@@ -0,0 +1,68 @@
+import assert from 'node:assert/strict';
+import { describe, test } from 'vitest';
+
+import { buildExportDocument } from '../src/lib/utils/export.ts';
+import { plainAppearance } from './exportFixtures.ts';
+import { readSource } from './sourceTree.js';
+
+const appStyles = readSource('src/styles.css');
+
+/**
+ * Loads `html` into the jsdom document as it would come out on `media`. jsdom
+ * applies no media type itself, so each `@media` block that names `media` (or
+ * `all`) is replaced in place by its own rules, and every other `@media` block
+ * is dropped.
+ */
+function render(html: string, media: 'print' | 'screen'): Document {
+	document.documentElement.innerHTML = html.replace(/^<!DOCTYPE html>\s*<html[^>]*>/, '').replace(/<\/html>\s*$/, '');
+	for (const sheet of Array.from(document.styleSheets)) {
+		for (let index = sheet.cssRules.length - 1; index >= 0; index -= 1) {
+			const rule = sheet.cssRules[index];
+			if (!(rule instanceof CSSMediaRule)) continue;
+			const applies = /\ball\b/.test(rule.media.mediaText) || rule.media.mediaText.includes(media);
+			const inner = applies ? Array.from(rule.cssRules, (r) => r.cssText) : [];
+			sheet.deleteRule(index);
+			inner.forEach((text, offset) => sheet.insertRule(text, index + offset));
+		}
+	}
+	return document;
+}
+
+function article(doc: Document): CSSStyleDeclaration {
+	const element = doc.querySelector('article.markdown-body');
+	assert.ok(element, 'the page has no article');
+	return getComputedStyle(element);
+}
+
+const exported = buildExportDocument({
+	theme: 'light',
+	title: 'Notes',
+	styles: appStyles,
+	articleHtml: '<p>body</p>',
+	contentWidth: null,
+	appearance: plainAppearance,
+});
+
+describe('printing an exported HTML file', () => {
+	test('prints the article instead of a blank page', () => {
+		// The copied print sheet hides everything outside #app, which an exported
+		// file does not have, so the article itself was hidden on paper.
+		assert.notEqual(article(render(exported, 'print')).display, 'none');
+	});
+
+	test('gets the same paper margins as the app’s own PDF', () => {
+		// The PDF route prints #print-root inside #app; the export used to keep its
+		// screen padding on paper instead.
+		const pdf = render(
+			`<head><style>${appStyles}</style></head><body><div id="app"><div id="print-root"><article class="markdown-body"></article></div></div></body>`,
+			'print',
+		);
+		const paper = article(pdf).paddingTop;
+		assert.equal(article(render(exported, 'print')).paddingTop, paper);
+		assert.equal(article(render(exported, 'print')).paddingLeft, paper);
+	});
+
+	test('keeps its 40px padding on screen', () => {
+		assert.equal(article(render(exported, 'screen')).paddingTop, '40px');
+	});
+});
diff --git a/src/lib/utils/export.ts b/src/lib/utils/export.ts
index d7432c4d..9150f5a4 100644
--- a/src/lib/utils/export.ts
+++ b/src/lib/utils/export.ts
@@ -226,7 +226,6 @@ html, body {
 	padding: 0;
 }
 .markdown-body {
-	padding: 40px !important;
 	max-width: ${exportContentMaxWidth(input.contentWidth)};
 ${appearance}
 	margin: 0 auto;
@@ -234,6 +233,20 @@ ${appearance}
 	overflow: visible !important;
 	min-height: 100%;
 }
+@media screen {
+	.markdown-body {
+		padding: 40px !important;
+	}
+}
+/* The copied print sheet hides everything outside #app, because the app prints
+   #print-root inside it. An exported file has no #app: its article is the page.
+   The :not(#app) is there for weight, to outrank that rule. Its padding is left
+   to the print sheet, so paper gets the same margins as the app's PDF. */
+@media print {
+	body > .markdown-body:not(#app) {
+		display: block !important;
+	}
+}
 .lang-label {
 	display: none !important;
 }
diff --git a/src/styles.css b/src/styles.css
index 350753af..5f0d5a86 100644
--- a/src/styles.css
+++ b/src/styles.css
@@ -1440,7 +1440,7 @@ body {
 	}
 
 	.markdown-body {
-		padding: 0.75in !important;
+		padding: 1cm !important;
 		margin: 0 !important;
 		box-sizing: border-box !important;
 		box-decoration-break: clone !important;
@@ -1549,8 +1549,8 @@ body {
 		margin: 1em auto;
 	}
 	/* An image or a diagram taller than the paper used to be clipped at the page
-	   break rather than scaled; 9.5in is what both Letter and A4 hold with the
-	   0.75in margins above. */
+	   break rather than scaled; 9in fits both Letter and A4 inside the
+	   1cm margins above. */
 	.markdown-body img,
 	.markdown-body .mermaid-diagram svg {
 		max-height: 9in !important;