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Printing Borderless Prints with Pro 8.3

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I am using a Mac. I am also using a Canon iP8570 for my printing. I prefer to print direct from Capture One as I have much more control (ICC profiles etc) than with the supplied Canon Easy Photo-print software or even PSE 12. I like to print without borders. Using either of the previous mentioned printing solutions I can get a true borderless print. However, no matter what I do, every print from Capture One comes out with some border despite having selected borderless printing in the drop down print menu. I have tried to alter the cell height/width in 'Layout' to match the paper size (A4/A3) but I cannot match the actual size of the paper as the parameters won't let me! I select 'zoom to fill' on Image Settings. Having done all this, apart from getting an unwanted border, one edge (short edge) has a larger border than the rest of the print! I have tried taking photos with different Aspect Ratios on my Lumix G6 from 4:3 to 3:2 but that makes no difference. Surely there must be a way to get true borderless prints on Capture One. Can anyone tell me how - please?
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  • SFA
    Borderless printing or lack of it are usually functions of the printer drivers.

    You will often find that the printer, for various reasons, may not attempt to print to the edge on certain types of media - types of paper in particular.

    I have a Canon printer. The driver has been most interesting with some other applications - it seemed to work purely by chance most of the time.

    It almost always produces one odd border with a wider margin than the others.

    Borderless printing almost always means expanding the print area so that the edges drop over the paper.

    For my purposes what I can get is good enough. If I really want borderless more than anything else I will likely send a jpg file to output making it the exact size required or the media - which may not be the size claimed on he box. A mm or two can make a big difference.

    HTH.


    Grant
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  • NN635279910094605210UL
    Thanks Grant. Some useful information there.
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  • Ken Bates
    Steve's Digicam has a great writeup of borderless printing and why you may not always get exactly what you wanted. Well worth reading:

    http://www.steves-digicams.com/knowledg ... nting.html

    - Ken
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  • SFA
    Good link Ken.

    I think with borderless prints you NEVER get what you wanted but can quite close, as Mike Chaney suggests, if you know about the discrepancies and have worked out how to allow for them.

    Plan B would be to print on larger paper and guillotine to size - which is in effect what happens in commercial print works much of the time.

    I keep meaning to try QImage - but then to do so would mean I'm not printing directly from the RAW file as I am in C1.


    Grant
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  • NN635279910094605210UL
    Thank you Ken and Grant for your inputs. After fiddling around with the print settings I have actually managed to print an A3 borderless print - and hopefully more! Probably finger trouble on my side! Thanks for the link, Ken. I have saved it to read later.
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