topic Re: Greeting Card Printing - PIXMA Pro 100 in Professional Photo Printers

Greeting Card Printing - PIXMA Pro 100

Naturalpix — Thu, 02 Oct 2014 17:08:03 GMT

In need of some help!

I have built a greeting card on photoshop. It's 7x5 so the paper itself is 7x10.

The closest I have got is printing through PS (via the Canon Print screens) using a custom paper size but this automatically adds a boarder which is an issue. Once side of the card is a photo. If I select Boardless, I lose the custom paper size option.

I have today tried using My Image Garden Card Templates but have found that there is not a blank version. The two that have the right fold, have parts that you cannot change. You also cannot select the correct paper size.

There has to be a way round this! This printer has cost us hundreds of £s! Its a professional one & I am sure professionals print 7x5 cards!

Hope someone can point me in the right direction.
Thanks loads.

Re: Greeting Card Printing - PIXMA Pro 100

jrhoffman75 — Thu, 02 Oct 2014 18:04:23 GMT

Check your personal messages.

Re: Greeting Card Printing - PIXMA Pro 100

Naturalpix — Sat, 04 Oct 2014 14:46:11 GMT

Hi All,
Still trying to resolve this issue - John in kindly giving me lots of solutions but they are not working my end.
All I need to do is print on 7x10 boarderless - how can it be this difficult?
Any ideas?

Re: Greeting Card Printing - PIXMA Pro 100

jrhoffman75 — Sat, 04 Oct 2014 14:51:22 GMT

See this. It looks like Borderless on that size paper is not possible.

http://www.redrivercatalog.com/infocenter/tips/how-to-print-11x14-borderless-canon-inkjet-printer.html

Re: Greeting Card Printing - PIXMA Pro 100

erikcoonor — Tue, 25 Nov 2014 13:40:10 GMT

There are lots of issues in the greeting card printing. You can go for the instructions manual but after that if you can’t find the right solution then call the customer care they will assist you how to solve your problem.

Re: Greeting Card Printing - PIXMA Pro 100

loric — Fri, 28 Nov 2014 04:45:29 GMT

I am having the same exact problem. The reason why I purchased the pro 100 is becuase it as the printer recommended by Red River Paper on their webpage. I am going to be very disappointed if I cannot print 5 by 7 cards with the photo borderless. Part of my being advertising to potenital customers is that customers and/or recipients of the card can choose to frame the 5 by 7 print. Please post if you are able to resolve this issue. Thanks.

Re: Greeting Card Printing - PIXMA Pro 100

ebiggs1 — Sun, 30 Nov 2014 16:15:42 GMT

And the solution to your problem is a paper trimer. You can not print non-standard paper sizes on a standard paper size sheet.

If you do there will be a white "border" which must be trimed. It is actually very easy. And it can be the cheapest way to print.

For instance I print wallet size, which is 2 1/2 x 3 1/2 , photos with as many that will fit on a large size paper and trim them afterwards. You can't easily find 2 1/2 x 3 1/2 paper! Nor will most printers print that size anyway.

Plus some paper trimers can do several sheets at a time. But a simple trimer is not very expensive. Check Office Depot.

KISS is alway best.

Re: Greeting Card Printing - PIXMA Pro 100

jrhoffman75 — Sun, 30 Nov 2014 17:20:14 GMT

If you use the Red River 7x10 template for Lightroom you get an image that is 6.75x4.75 - not truly borderless, but if placed in any 5x7 picture frame I have used the 1/8 border is covered.

If someone wants to place it in a frameless lucite picture holder, as ebiggs1 says, use a trimmer.

Re: Greeting Card Printing - PIXMA Pro 100

Naturalpix — Sun, 30 Nov 2014 18:08:33 GMT

Hey Loric,

You cannot print on the 5x7 cards (ie: on 7x10 card). Well you can using PS and by making a canvas size that's acceptable to the 100 but it chucks black ink all over the place or ends just before the edge of the card where is senses the edge.

As another person has posted, we have opted for the paper trimmer route. So we now print 5x5 square cards onto A4 and guillotine the unwanted card away.

As for prints on 7x5 paper, it works amazing and is no trouble at all. Its only when you want a paper size borderless that isn't on their very small option list, that you will have trouble.

Drop me a note if you get stuck as we have mastered it now.

🙂

Re: Greeting Card Printing - PIXMA Pro 100

loric — Sun, 30 Nov 2014 21:08:54 GMT

Very good to know - thanks!

Re: Greeting Card Printing - PIXMA Pro 100

loric — Sun, 30 Nov 2014 21:13:16 GMT

Thank you so much for your reply!

Re: Greeting Card Printing - PIXMA Pro 100

triloron — Mon, 22 Dec 2014 15:37:36 GMT

Lame. And extra work - why is this necessary? If the Canon PIXMA Pro 100 can't do borderless 5x7 greeting cards, then it would be nice to understand why. Is this a technical limitation or an oversight on the part of Canon? It is a common activity on a common paper size. Why is it not supported?

Re: Greeting Card Printing - PIXMA Pro 100

jrhoffman75 — Mon, 22 Dec 2014 16:13:20 GMT

If you are talking about printing greeting cards on 5x7 paper (i.e. like a post card) the Pro-100 will do that borderless.

Borderless is not possible on non-Canon size paper (i.e.7x10 that you would fold to be 5x7)

Re: Greeting Card Printing - PIXMA Pro 100

triloron — Mon, 22 Dec 2014 18:16:35 GMT

Thanks for the quick response. I like Red River papers. So sad that the standard Red River size (10 x 7 to make 5 x 7 folding cards) is not also a standard Canon size. Looks like I will have to settle for either the extra step of trimming the white borders - which means the envelopes won't be perfect any more - or start buying Canon standard size paper. A big disappointment.

Re: Greeting Card Printing - PIXMA Pro 100

berentsen — Wed, 02 Sep 2015 17:41:09 GMT

There is a workaround for this problem ... the 10x7 card stock I have feeds through the printer folded using 5x7 paper size. I've only tried a few ... and feed one card at a time, but it seems to work

Re: Greeting Card Printing - PIXMA Pro 100

triloron — Wed, 02 Sep 2015 18:06:04 GMT

Thanks for the tip. I will try it.

Re: Greeting Card Printing - PIXMA Pro 100

Bailey1 — Tue, 09 Aug 2016 21:02:46 GMT

I have discussed bordless printing with Canon, Red River Papers regarding a print size of 5x7. Finally I called B & H Photo in New York. We went through the whole process of borderless printing of 5x7 greeting cards while the followed on a Canon Pro 100. They were not aware this was an issue. However they are going to meet with the Canon reps when they come in, which is frequently. B & H indicated this problem should not exist and Canon should take the necessary steps to correct it.

They indicated it should be a simple process to to create a download for the Pro 100, 10 and 1 which allows for 5x7 printing with A7 or 10x7 stock paper. Canon has stopped talking to me about this issue. Maybe a large retailer of their products will have better luck. Keep you posted.

Re: Greeting Card Printing - PIXMA Pro 100

erkyb — Fri, 14 Oct 2016 04:34:14 GMT

Amazing to me that Canon seems unwillling to develop a patch to download so that one can do borderless printing on 7 x 10 size paper with Pro 10 and Pro 100 papers. I have generally admired Canon printers, but this problem could motivate me to explore Epson, HP and other options. If I have to go that route to find a solutiont, it will certainly sour me on all Canon products.

Re: Greeting Card Printing - PIXMA Pro 100

fogiebear — Wed, 16 Nov 2016 18:19:58 GMT

Hey there!

Any word from Canon/B&H to follow up on this issue?
I'm honestly pretty shocked that this hasn't been resolved. I never would have purchased my Pro-100 had I known this would be an issue! We all know it's a big time-waste to have to trim each card.

Hoping they'll make this right!

Re: Greeting Card Printing - PIXMA Pro 100

kh6974 — Sun, 27 Nov 2016 18:25:38 GMT

I bought this printer because I saw it recommended as being able to print borderless on 5 x 7, and I saw that it could print custom 7 x10 paper. I have 300 card templates created in photoshop. I tried every manipulation I could think of with no good results. Called Canon. No refund. No exchange to a different printer. I have been able to use a manipulation on the Epson Artisan 50, and the Canon Pixma 9000. Both are gone now, and replaced with printers unable to accommodate my needs. Does anyone know of another printer that can be manipulated to print 5 x 7 borderless on 7 x 10 paper. And please, don't tell me it can't be done. I've been doing this for 7 years successfully. Thanks in advance for your product info and knowledge.