12-03-2015
12:11 PM
- last edited on
12-06-2022
09:29 AM
by
Danny
Does anyone know how to reset the default automatic margins on Canon PIXMA MG2500 series driver?
I've been changing all margins on my documents to 0cm, but there ll be always margins showed up when I printed the documents, especially the bottom so it's always cutting off the bottom of the page. So I know it must be the driver. The automatic margin that always showed up on the bottom of the page is around 1,6 cm. There's also no option on the Printing Preferences to change them. I'm using Windows 10, by the way.
02-02-2018 10:41 PM
03-09-2018 10:57 PM
Had the same problem.
I opened it via a PDF file and checked the printer applicant. On Windows, it sets the default printer to 'XPS Viewer' which tries to squeeze the file together and so the bottom is lost. I changed it to the actual name of the printer (on the drop down list) and it worked. Although everytime I tried to print something, it automatically resets to XPS viewer and so it had to be manually set back every single use.
Worked like a charmed ever since.
05-20-2018 04:45 AM
07-13-2018 03:46 AM
01-21-2019 08:34 AM
11-22-2020 09:19 PM
In Win10 , go to 'Control Panel' and get to the point where you can edit the 'Printer Driver' settings ..
You probably have it set to use A4 paper, which in about an inch longer than the " 11 inch" dimension of the "Letter" size paper (8 1/2 x 11 ) , so the canon is MAGNIFYING very sligfhtly to fit the A4 size !!
but your paper is 'Letter size: 8.5 x 11 inches ' so your paper is NOT LONG ENOUGH to catch that bottom edge !
So config it to 'LETTER' size ( which = 8.5x11) so the Canon WONT magnify it : the printer KNOWS that 'Letter' size = 8.5x11 ....
11-23-2020 12:23 AM
Changing from A4 to 'letter' as the preset seems to have worked on my old-ish MacBook Pro. Constructed a page in TextEdit with 70 lines and both pages print fine. Plus a test page from Safari worked. Let's hope this works long term.
I find it amazing this problem has been talked about for 5 years and somebody (a new contributor!) found a fix. Canon engineers couldn't.
Again, hope it really works... Fingers crossed.
--jim
(Kudos to 'tkj' !)
11-23-2020 11:11 AM
Not only that, but the fix was so obvious !
If an inch or so is cut off/not-printed , and if the size of A4 paper is about 1 inch LONGER than letter size, then the printer has been mis-instructed as to how to size it's printing!! Changing document size to be 'Letter' size will fix it ..
11-25-2020 12:15 AM
Well, looks like it's not quite perfect. Just printed 2 pages of an Excel sheet and lost the bottom line.
--jim
01-21-2019 12:37 PM
I just talked with the Canon support rep. She told me that the 1.6 cm border at the bottom is in the hardware and cannot be remedied. There is no 'fix' for this. Since several models have been mentioned in this Forum with the same problem, this may be a new restriction on the desktop printers. Sorry.
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