Photoshop CS5 not printing bang on!

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I've kind of always known it but tonight brought it back to my attention. Seeing as my DSCL delivery never arrived (it's well late :() my R320 has been doing a spot of overtime with some A6 flyers.

Problem being they aren't printing very accurately on the A4 paper with some clipping occuring. The printer will allow borderless printing and the margins are set to zero.

I did a test by popping up a grid and working from the top left and sketching over the grid for the rist few cm's along with 1mm markers.

The results show that 4mm is being clipped from the top and 2mm is being clipped from the left. This may not sound like much but it is actually very obvious.

Does anyone know why this is happening?
 
On my canon, borderless options in the print driver state that the image is going to be stretched slightly.
Assume the same is happening here.
 
could you not add a 4mm border to the top and 2mm to side(s) to avoid this?

I know its a pain but may sort out the issue you were having
 
whitey said:
could you not add a 4mm border to the top and 2mm to side(s) to avoid this?

I know its a pain but may sort out the issue you were having
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Not a bad idea, you could even set it up as an action that you can run through before printing. Not ideal, but might work well.
 
Cheers for the replies. I'm trying to work out how exactly to do this as I need things to be bang on A5 and A6 sizes for cutting seeing as my DSCL order is nowhere to be seen and they are ignoring me.

I don't think the image is being stretched otherwise the mm guide I printed wouldn't be cut off at the top left corner, I'm thinking more that the whole page is shifted? I'll maybe need to check all the corners and see what's happening.

Is illustrator any better?
 
gman said:
Is illustrator any better?
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It's probably more in tune with what you're trying to do, and I've usually found it quicker to do flyers or pamphlets in it, just using PS for the artwork. Whether or not it's going to crop to the same degree I couldn't say.

Import you artwork into illustrator as a background overlay for the project and see what it looks like?
 
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