Changing Print Margins

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rbruns
Jul 15, 2003
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In Page Setup I have centered the image,
problem is the margin settings on the sides are not the same. When I print the images are never centered.
The boxes that contain the margin settings are inactive. I can change the margins in other programs but this seems to be locked in Photoshop. I am running Photoshop 7 with Raw Plug In.
If anyone has suggestions please advise.
Thanks
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Colin Walls
Jul 15, 2003
Hmmmm. The reason the margin settings are inactive is that PS has no concept of margins. An image is of a certain size [pixel size and PPI resolution] and can be scaled on the print preview page, where it can also be centered or moved around.

Depends what printer you have, but many have slightly assymetric printable areas.
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YrbkMgr
Jul 15, 2003
The boxes that contain the margin settings are inactive.

That is because they are read from the printer you have set as your default.

Side point: as Colin alluded to, Photoshop is NOT a page layout program, so it doesn’t work like, say MS Word or Powerpoint. It is an Image App only so you only define your image in photoshop.

What you do though, is, through photoshop, you can define paper size and margins, but those are done with the "links" to your printer driver: Page Setup|Printer Properites.

It is in the printer driver that you define your paper size. Your printer will have physical limitations on how far to the edge it will print. Photoshop cannot do anything about that. You must define your paper and margins in the printer driver.

Peace,
Tony
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rbruns
Jul 15, 2003
Colin & Tony,

Thanks for helping solve the mystery. Instead of trying to change the margins in Page Setup, I went to Print Preview and was able to uncheck the Center Image, and in the Position boxes redefined the top and left image positions.

Images are now printing centered I was working under the premise that by checking the Center Image I would obtain the image correctly….does not work on my printer set up/drivers.

Thanks again!!!

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