Canon Easy Print Crops Photos

[JayBeee]

I have a Canon MX850 printer. I have had this printer several years and use it a couple times a week. (Most of my B&W printing is done on a Brother laser printer DCP-7065DN).

I am using Canon Easy Photo Print Ver. 4

I have PC running Windows 7.
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The problem I am having is I want to print colored, 4x6 borderless pictures that are NOT cropped in any way. I want to print directly onto Canon 4x6 photo paper.

Canon Photo Print automatically crops off parts of the top and bottom of the photo!

If you go into “Crop” under “Edit” you will see how much the software automatically crops the picture.

I don’t want to edit or enhance the picture that came from the camera in any way.

Is there some sort of SIMPLE, inexpensive / freeware, software that will do this?

(Qimage seems rather expensive)!

 

[Łukasz]

Hi,

Basic version of XnView (for non-company users it's freeware) has plenty print-positioning options:

Canon Photo Print automatically crops off parts of the top and bottom of the photo!

Probably because photo aspect ratio isn't roughly 2:3 (as 4" x 6" paper size).
There are three possible options:

• "Best fit to page" - photo aspect ratio is preserved, white stripe is present at one or at two sides of print (probably don't want such layout)
  
  
  
  
  
  
• "Stretch to page" - photo will fill all printable area, but photo aspect ratio isn't preserved, so things may be either too wide or too high
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
• "Crop to page" - photo will fill all printable area, but some parts of opposite sides (or only one side) won't be printed
  
  
  
  
  
  

"Position" sub-option is essential to move photo in printable area (it is essential with "Crop to page" option).

XnView is capable of batch printing - just select multiple images from its bowser and select print - single printing dialog will appear in order to set unified printing parameters to every selected photo.

Some tips:
- please check "Header/Footer" tab first, cause by default it has some parameters set (most likely unwanted in photo printing)

Special notes on Pixma driver settings in borderless mode:
- by default, Pixma driver enlarge borderless prints to 102% 104% of its original size

There is a slider in printer driver to set "100%", "102%", "104%" or "106%" enlargement for borderless print. If "100%" is set, some quirks may be spotted on prints, including:
- very thin white margins
- a little skewed print
- white margin at trailing edge

Strongly recommend checking printer preview in Pixma driver, and if photo layout is OK, so then print only one photo to confirm it visually.

Ł.

 

[Lucas28]

I too noticed that Canon easy photo print always crops the photos. So I use the Epson Easy photo Print. With that program you can choose to have the photos cropped or not. Uncropped photos get a white border. The Epson program works with Canon printers as well. The program can freely be downloaded from the Epson home site.

But you want uncropped borderless photos, and that is almost impossible. The photo files are often not in the same aspect ratio as the 4x6 paper. And even if they are, then it's hard to adjust the size in the way that nothing of the photo gets lost or no small white border appears at the edge. There is also a problem with the centering of the picture. A printer often doesn't print a photo centered precisely.

Of course you can try it out. In the printer driver you can adjust the percentage of cropping under 'page layout'

 

[CakeHole]

A read through this thread may be beneficial to all those participating in this one...
http://www.printerknowledge.com/threads/small-image-on-4x6-paper.9211/

 

[jtoolman]

I have a Canon MX850 printer. I have had this printer several years and use it a couple times a week. (Most of my B&W printing is done on a Brother laser printer DCP-7065DN).

I am using Canon Easy Photo Print Ver. 4

I have PC running Windows 7.
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~

The problem I am having is I want to print colored, 4x6 borderless pictures that are NOT cropped in any way. I want to print directly onto Canon 4x6 photo paper.

Canon Photo Print automatically crops off parts of the top and bottom of the photo!

If you go into “Crop” under “Edit” you will see how much the software automatically crops the picture.

I don’t want to edit or enhance the picture that came from the camera in any way.

Is there some sort of SIMPLE, inexpensive / freeware, software that will do this?

(Qimage seems rather expensive)!

Well.... printing borderless is impossible in most printers without cropping or enlarging the image do that it is guaranteed to fall outside the paper's borders. Paper positioning on printer is very inaccurate and that is why the driver must enlarge it beyond the edges of the paper.

So not just Canon Easy Print software does that, ALL do it. But it is not the APP that does it. It's the printer driver.

Qiamge is not expensive. You should see what others cost.

Joe

 

[CakeHole]

Depends on the image size and the paper size you are using. In many cases you can get away with a fullsize print with minimal altering of the image. Canon Easy Print just is not very good it generally either wants to leave the image as is or expand and crop it.