that’s usually a function of your printer. what are you trying to do? make them narrower? wider? (if wider, does your printer allow edge to edge printing?) what is the make and model of the printer and what version of photoshop?
that’s usually a function of your printer.
Yep. PS reads the limitations of your printer from the printer driver. You cannot change it from within PS, and probably shouldn’t change it in the printer driver itself. Those margins are set to indicate to programs that the printer cannot (reliably) print in the margins.
Some people don’t care and can "fool" the printer driver into thinking it can print where the manufacturer says that it can’t. Results are usually poor when you override these.
But as Dave was getting at, indicate what you’re trying to do as there is probably another way to accomplish what you’re trying to accomplish. Also, knowing your printer make and model (again, as Dave points out) will help.
Peace,
Tony
I have an Okidata C5150 and Photoshop 7.0. I’m trying to print labels. I need the ink to go to the edge of the label (not the edge of the sheet). The label edges are a little bit in from the edge of the sheet. The labels are standard size, not any custom or weird sizes, so I am assuming that the reason the labels are made that distance from the edge of the paper is because most printers can print with margins that small. The printer is hitting the edge of the label dead on on one side, but the other side is about 2 or 3 mm off. I need to expand the margin by about that much.
I’d GREATLY appreciate any help you could offer. Even explaining how to "fool" the printer by adjusting the driver. I’ll give it a try and if the quality is poor I’ll just stop. But I need to try whatever I can quickly because if this printer can’t print to the edge of these labels then I have to fuind that out soon so I can return the printer, because then it will be useless to me.
Thanks a lot,
Joe
I presume its the C515n or C model.
Interestingly enough, I looked at the user manual (online) and there is no margin specification to be found. I spent about 10 minutes looking elsewhere within Oki for it and can’t find it. So here’s the deal.
You have to tell your printer (in the printers folder) that you have a custom size piece of paper. Instead of 8.5" try 8.7". Then when you print in photoshop, you click on the printer properties, and choose that as your paper and print. That’s how you "fool" it into printing into the nether region, width wise.
You may have trouble though, because this is a laser, and it knows how wide the tray is.
Bottom line, is that your printer MAY have an uneven print boundary. That is to say, it could be 0.116 on the left and 0.225 on the right. It’s rare, I would think for a drum based laser to do that, but <shrug> it’s Oki, so who can say for sure.
Peace,
Tony
Edit: I just checked the manual and they say that "Avery 5161 White Laser Labels (letter size) work well with your
printer."
