printing borderless at custom size

[dsixteen]

hi guys i need to print somthing borderless but paper is custom sized paper. my pixma 4300 and r320 doesnt support it. is there any printer can do that. and is there any software can do that, i dont want to buy a new printer

 

[Smile]

Hmm, just set your printer paper to custom in printer drivers, then select the borderless option too.

Use a program like Qimage to print, works every time

 

[dsixteen]

well if you set paper to custom, borderless option becomes to unsellectable

 

[fotofreek]

Your ip4300 printer can only print borderless pix in selected sizes. I don't know about the Epson. The reason is that when you do borderless prints the printer actually expands the image slightly and "overprints" all edges. This is done so you don't have a white edge anywhere. You will also notice that you image is cropped a bit more than you had done in your software. If you look inside the printer where the printhead travels you will notice a long, narrow sponge-like part the length of the printhead travel. You will also notice that there are specific wider area of sponge. These are the areas where the overprinting occurs. The ink goes through these wider areas of the sponge and down into an absorbent pad that is commonly called the waste ink tank. If you were to do custom borderless prints you would have the extra ink accumulating inside the printer in the areas where the sponge is narrow.

You will have to do something creative to end up with custom borderless prints. Depends on what size prints you want to end up with. I do greeting cards on 8.5x11 coated card stock that have three sides borderless, and when I fold the card in half the fourth side at the fold also looks borderless.This involves creating an 8.5x5.5 image in photoshop Elements, creating an 8.5x11 new page, moving the first image onto the plain page to cover half of the 8.5x11 page as a second layer, and printing it 8.5x11 borderless.

 

[Smile]

well if you set paper to custom, borderless option becomes to unsellectable

Then you have to do little experiment, set papaper size to the one you want in the printer and test print, if you see white band from one side just cheat and set paper size wider than you actually use the wite band shoud be gone.

To set precisely you need to measure white band with a ruler and add that to the width of your initial paper size, the same goes to height.