topic Re: Printing down and to the right in Professional Photo Printers

Printing down and to the right

icodyonline — Wed, 06 Jan 2016 05:34:56 GMT

Hello, I'm new here, so sorry if this has been posted else where, but I couldn't find it.

I just got a Pixma Pro-100. LOVE IT! However, when I print, the photos always have a border if I choose None on "Amount of extension for borderless printing. I want the ENTIRE photo printed, not a slightly cropped one, which is what happens is you choose small, medium or large. So I choose my 4x6 with None for that option, it prints EVER so slightly down and to the right. In print settings I have set: Printer: Pro-100, Media Type: Other Glossy Paper (I use Epson 4x6) and for paper size I choose: 4x6.

Any ideas would be greatly appreciated.

Re: Printing down and to the right

jrhoffman75 — Wed, 06 Jan 2016 11:57:40 GMT

I think you are dealing with the fact that there are manufacturing tolerances to deal with.

You select None and the printer does its best to get the entire image on the paper, but its not perfect.

Select one of the extension options and the printer makes the image slightly larger, but you loose some becasue it overprints the paper.

I've never found a way aroiund this on my Pro-100. I use a quality paper trimer and just cut off the tiny white area.

As an aside, you don't want to do a lot of borderless printing because you wind up spraying ink inside the printer and it can wind up getting on prints if it gets a lot of it.

Re: Printing down and to the right

icodyonline — Thu, 07 Jan 2016 08:35:21 GMT

Well dang. I'll just have to keep playing around with it. I know you can do it. I mean, that's one of the reasons you have to choose the paper size, so the printer knows where and how big to print right?

Re: Printing down and to the right

jrhoffman75 — Thu, 07 Jan 2016 11:41:03 GMT

If you are printing from either Lightroom, Photoshop or Photoshop Elements you can try using Canon Print Studio Pro and see if that has a slightly different result.

Re: Printing down and to the right

icodyonline — Thu, 07 Jan 2016 11:42:05 GMT

That's what I use now. Lightroom 5 with Print Studio Pro.

Re: Printing down and to the right

jrhoffman75 — Thu, 07 Jan 2016 11:58:03 GMT

I just checked with DPP and PSP. Don't yoy get an extension option of None, Small, Medium, Large, Statndard?

If you check default I get Standard.

If I go into the rpinter driver and select Borderless I get a popup that tells me the image will be enlarged slightly.

Re: Printing down and to the right

icodyonline — Thu, 07 Jan 2016 12:00:01 GMT

That's what I said in my original post. I have those options, however, when I select None and the borderless, I still have that small margin.

Re: Printing down and to the right

jrhoffman75 — Thu, 07 Jan 2016 12:03:14 GMT

Understood. But It looks like the default Canon setting is not None because they know they need to have a little enlargement to be sure the entire page is covered.

Re: Printing down and to the right

icodyonline — Thu, 07 Jan 2016 12:04:36 GMT

If I DO select an option, like small, medium, etc... the photo is then enlarged and cuts off parts of the photo. Hopefully this can be fixed with an update.

Re: Printing down and to the right

jrhoffman75 — Thu, 07 Jan 2016 12:07:08 GMT

I don't think so. Its what they expect to happen.

Re: Printing down and to the right

icodyonline — Thu, 07 Jan 2016 12:08:12 GMT

Right, even what that notice, it still prints with a margin.

Re: Printing down and to the right

jrhoffman75 — Thu, 07 Jan 2016 12:38:37 GMT

I don't think so. You are overriding the default Canon setting by selecting None. The default Canon setting of Standard is second from right, which is most likely Medium.

I don't have time right now, but I'll check into direct printing from Lightroom.

Re: Printing down and to the right

jrhoffman75 — Thu, 07 Jan 2016 13:36:10 GMT

I checked LR. It is probably using the Canon driver setting and will default to standard, but maybe if you select Zoom to Fill in LR and go into the Canon driver and select None you will get closer to what you want.

Re: Printing down and to the right

icodyonline — Thu, 07 Jan 2016 13:36:59 GMT

Thanks! I'll give that a try when I get home from work and let you know. 🙂

Re: Printing down and to the right

jrhoffman75 — Thu, 07 Jan 2016 14:20:16 GMT

http://www.steves-digicams.com/knowledge-center/border-patrol-all-about-borderless-printing.html