Borderless Printing

[mattchewone]

Good morning folks,

I am not sure if this is the correct section to post this so please move in necessary.

I work in retail and have just had a customer come in with his hp photosmart printer, he is having problems printing borderless. When he prints borderless he looses parts of his image. I decided to then try on a Canon MP600 and got the same results.

He was printing via an SD card straight from the printer so no computer involved.

Is this a common problem with printing standalone or do you get the same results from printing via a computer?

Many Thanks

Matt

 

[Nod]

With some printers you can tell them how much you want to "bleed" over the edge of the paper via the printer properties dialogue. When I'm printing borderless, I try to leave a little extra background so that the effective cropping doesn't remove anything important. Depending on the paper size, some cropping is inevitable - OK, 6" x 4" is directly compatible with the 3:2 aspect ratio from most (bar 4/3rds) DSLRs but 5x7 and the A series of papers aren't. If your customer wants the whole picture at a particular size, he may be better off printing the image onto a sheet of larger paper then cutting the oversize sheet down to sixe with a craft knife/roller cutter/guillotine but that would mean going through a computer which he may not want to do.

 

[mattchewone]

Thanks for the help, ill pass this on to my collegue who was dealing with the customer in more depth.

Any more help much appreciated!

 

[KIPAX]

If I am cropping 7x5 and losing some image printing borderless... Is there a different crop I could use... apart from leaving space aeround the pic

 

[StewartR]

When he prints borderless he looses parts of his image.

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He was printing via an SD card straight from the printer so no computer involved.

I think it's an aspect ratio problem.

Images straight from his camera will have probably have an aspect ratio of:

• 1.500 (3:2) if it's a Canon / Nikon / Sony / Pentax DSLR
• 1.333 (4:3) if it's an olympus DSLR or a compact
• 1.777 (16:9) if it's a compact shooting in widescreen mode

But most paper sizes are different shapes:

• 1.250 for 10"x8"
• 1.400 for 7"x5"
• 1.414 for A4, A3, etc.
• 1.500 for 6"x4"

If you're trying to print onto paper that has a different aspect ratio from the original picture, you have to either crop the picture or leave some white space. You physically can't have it uncropped and borderless.

 

[mattchewone]

I think it's an aspect ratio problem.

Images straight from his camera will have probably have an aspect ratio of:

• 1.500 (3:2) if it's a Canon / Nikon / Sony / Pentax DSLR
• 1.333 (4:3) if it's an olympus DSLR or a compact
• 1.777 (16:9) if it's a compact shooting in widescreen mode

But most paper sizes are different shapes:

• 1.250 for 10"x8"
• 1.400 for 7"x5"
• 1.414 for A4, A3, etc.
• 1.500 for 6"x4"

If you're trying to print onto paper that has a different aspect ratio from the original picture, you have to either crop the picture or leave some white space. You physically can't have it uncropped and borderless.

Thats awesome thanks very much! I will pass this is, great help!