scale html table before printing using css

I know I’m raising the dead, but for future search results reference:

I ran into a problem with super wide tables causing all the browsers to calculate the height incorrectly and repeat the thead multiple times on single pages – my solution was to apply zoom: 80% to the body (% varies based on your needs) which forced our page to effectively fit for print and the thead then was repeated properly at the top of every page. Perhaps trying zoom will work where transform did not.

Example CSS

@media print {
  body {
    zoom: 80%;
  }
}