bordeless alignment issues with Pixma Pro 9000 II

[capitanfracassa]

Well yes, there is print preview and there is orientation button. But they are off because the printer's page definition is wrong. So that's the problem, you cannot rely on these tools when you cannot set the correct page size in the driver. Photoshop relies on the information from the driver to show you the visual layout on the page.

 

[fotofreek]

What would happen if you lie a bit and use the 4x6 page definition? Your 100 mm x 150 mm paper is slightly smaller than 4x6, 101.6 mm x 152.4 mm, but you may be able to work out a way by adding a white edge where the paper size is different and include it in your cropping so that your borderless print will work out to your actual desirec cropping and you would minimize the overspray of ink indise the printer. Even though there are special foam areas at the edge of each borderless size paper to pick up the over-printed area, there is also a narrower sponge strip the whole length of the area under the printing level that will pick up excess ink (that might occur with printing a photo cropped larger than the choice of paper). Still better to minimize the amount of overspray.

Where are you located? If you have a Costco store they may stock the 4x6 glossy photo paper that we can purchase here. Less than five cents US per sheet and the paper is quite good. People have also been known to have a friend who visits the US bring back or send some of this paper. You would think that Canon was a US manufacturer becuase they build their printers to US Paper sizes!

 

[capitanfracassa]

What would happen if you lie a bit and use the 4x6 page definition? Your 100 mm x 150 mm paper is slightly smaller than 4x6, 101.6 mm x 152.4 mm, but you may be able to work out a way by adding a white edge where the paper size is different and include it in your cropping so that your borderless print will work out to your actual desirec cropping and you would minimize the overspray of ink indise the printer. Even though there are special foam areas at the edge of each borderless size paper to pick up the over-printed area, there is also a narrower sponge strip the whole length of the area under the printing level that will pick up excess ink (that might occur with printing a photo cropped larger than the choice of paper). Still better to minimize the amount of overspray.

Where are you located? If you have a Costco store they may stock the 4x6 glossy photo paper that we can purchase here. Less than five cents US per sheet and the paper is quite good. People have also been known to have a friend who visits the US bring back or send some of this paper. You would think that Canon was a US manufacturer becuase they build their printers to US Paper sizes!

That is what I do. To repeat, I solved the problem with the settings described above. I get good borderless 100x150. I am still bitching because I shouldn't have to workaround Canon being a pain

I live in Switzerland. I do import expensive paper sometimes. For the cheap stuff, I pay 8c at the supermarket. It's really not worth the hassle importing.

 

[fotofreek]

Canon has done you the favor of requiring a creative solution to an annoying problem! You figured it out quite well. Several years ago the US toyed with going to all metric measurements. Obviously it never happened. The US medical professions use metric measurements, as does the scientific community for most of its work.

Are you using either photoshop or photoshop elements? There is a very simple function in PE to resize the image. You can select resize the "canvas", anchor the image to one corner, and expand the canvas sufficiently to leave two white ecges . You will be translating you 100x150 image to a 4x6 with two white edges that will apply ink to the 100x150 area of what the printer thinks is a 4x6 sheet of paper.