Help please! Border print problem....

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Hi, I've searched this forum but couldn't find the answer to my problem, so am hoping some of you could help please.
I am having trouble printing with a regular sized border - one end of a 6x4 print always has a thinner border than the other. I'm using a canon iP4500 printer and printing using it's supplied software or zoombrowser EX which is the file browser software supplied with canon dslrs. I've tried making a border in PS using both stroke and canvas size options, then printing borderless, assuming this would print what I see on the screen, and made sure my image size including border matches the print size, but when I check the print pre-view the border is ignored and the image aligned so that it still has an odd sized border or sometimes only a border on two sides or edges depending on the image. :bang:Any ideas on how to make a border the print software will acknowledge when I print borderless so I can control it? :thinking:

Thanks in advance for any help you can give.
 
By telling the printer it is borderless, it automatically bleeds it off the page, so you'll lose part of the image (i.e. part of your border). Your best bet is to work out the margins of the printer by printing a sheet of A4 filled with a light gray (as opposed to black to reduce ink usage) to the edge with borderless printing turned off and you'll see the actual margin. Then taking the biggest margin, use this as your border size. Hopefully that makes sense.
 
Thanks for your reply Stu, but it doesn't make any sense to me at all. If I print any document without a borderless setting, it sets an uneven margin, so if I make an A4 size sheet of grey and print it, it will still have this uneven border. And if I make a border, it still prints unevenly on the same printer setting, just with a wider border. So how do I see the print margin? Sorry, any way of explaining this to a thickie like me?
 
Don't know if this'll help.

Print from Photoshop, but increase the image size by about 1% in the Photoshop printer dialog.

See if this causes the printer to print the image that bit larger that it prints over the edge of the paper.

I found that on my Epson I would get a small margine down one side if the paper didn't transport correctly. Increasing in my case by 0.5% caused the printer to overprint slightly but gave boderless prints
 
Thanks for your help, I've played around with all suggestions but haven't found a solution yet. :'(
 
Thanks for the link Chappers
 
HI, I know there my replay is out time but maybe I help someone else. Well i have the same problem, margin in my prints was unequal or awry - In first time i think is broken driver because on Windows Vista i don't have any problem, only on Win7 x64. I print many copies, clean printing head, feeder with no effect. And then i go to the printer propertis in control panel in Win7x64 --> advance --> print processor --> and change ( in my case ) BJ Prin Processor4 to MLCB1PC or WinPrint - default data type: RAW in both case. When i Do this, every think works fine.
 
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