PhotoShop CS clipping printed images (again)

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Scott_Leslie
Aug 3, 2004
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It’s back.

This time only in tabloid (11×17) size, a size that printed just fine on my HP DeskJet 9650 the night before. In landscape, it gets clipped about 8" in on the 11" dimension; in portrait, about 10" down the long way.

The clipping does not show in PhotoShop’s print preview, only in the print preview of my HP 9650 driver (and in the final print). HP tells me that their print preview shows what the application sends it, so the problem must be in PhotoShop. This is verified by importing the same file into Corel’s PhotoPaint, and seeing it preview and print just fine from that application.

This happened when I installed the printer, and sporadically since with letter (8½x11) size paper; now it happens with some, not all, tabloid size prints. There must be some setting in PhotoShop that causes this, but where oh where could it be?

[Windows 2000, Pentium 4 2ghz, 1 gig RAM, 4 gig swap space, PhotoShop 7 (Creative Suite)]
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Mark_Allen
Aug 3, 2004
Try and be patient. Sometimes when people see a thread and they don’t automatically know the answer they tend to shy away from it. this will get dealt with somehow. I’m trying to encourage you.

BTW, does your printer have "edge to edge/ borderless" facility? Sometimes PS registers things slightly incorrect. eg, today I set up an A4 size print but inside there was an inch all round of white.

I set the printer up for borderless (Epson) and it printed. Then I set another up with the same settings and PS through up a warning saying there’ll be clipping, even though nothing changed but it printed out fine, so work that out as well.

Why not just print it out anyway and see what happens. I know it isn’t much crumb of comfort esp, when you’re maybe cutting things fine but sometimes experimenting leads to better things.

Try it and see! and let’s know XD

Regards

Mark
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Scott_Leslie
Aug 3, 2004
I have done an actual printout–that’s how I got into this maze. The bottom border of the printed image was slightly jagged, and below that was just paper (the bottom 25%–when I print preview a portrait image it’s the leading 25%).

To save toner I put together a simple rectangle with a slanted line through it, and printed that a couple times with different settings (including borderless, center-on-page, whatever). Same problem.

Now I just print preview to save time (and toner/paper).
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Mark_Allen
Aug 3, 2004
Scott,

Diagonal lines rarely print out perfect esp. on ink-jets. What is it you’re trying to go for? i.e. Mag, Newspaper, Pro-Prints etc.

Have you tried possibly using Post-Script settings from, say Illustrator etc, etc?

Let’s know what you’re trying to achieve and we’ll work on it. <http://www.smileyworld.com/toolbar/>

Regards

Mark
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Scott_Leslie
Aug 4, 2004
The diagonal line is just a "placeholder" for all the pixels that occupy the middle area of the photo I’m trying to print; it doesn’t matter how well it comes out. What’s important is that it gets clipped in preview and in printing, just as the photo does.

I’m starting to think this may be a Windows (2K) problem: I’ve rebooted several times, remembering that that helped before, but to no avail. But then I recalled my Windows Explorer problem: I’d gotten in the habit of right-clicking drive letters to select Properties and get a pie chart showing how much of my scratch disks PhotoShop is using while it works. Now, though, that causes Explorer to crash, every time, and I can’t do it anymore.

So I rebooted the machine and avoided any use of Explorer at all, and voila! PhotoShop printed the 10×16 8-bit cymk photo on 11×17 paper without a hitch.

Two questions: has anyone had this sort of experience? And has anyone made the upgrade to XP, with remarkable results? (if so please remark).

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