CS3 – dvd cover making. Printing comes out wrong dimensions.

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Brad_902
Mar 14, 2008
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Hi all!

I have been making a cover for a dvd. I created a new project with the dimensions of the dvd cover which is: height: 18.2 cm, width: 27.2 cm. I finished the cover, and am now having difficulty printing.
I first tried flattening the image, creating a bmp, and printing with XP’s photo printing wizard, but it came out that the height was ok – a little off, but the width was nearly 2cms too short. I tried just printing from photoshop, but it tried scaling it down. And, by the way, I am new to Photoshop CS3! So my question is, what am I doing wrong with printing this cover??

Thanks for your help!!
Brad
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Brett_Dalton
Mar 16, 2008
When printing anything you want without a border add around 5mm to the dimensions as a bleed for starters. so i’d increase the size slightly in any case. Crop and cut to the final dimensions as you need, this will avoid white showing were it’s not ment to be.

There shouldn’t be any need to scale in photoshop at all if the document is set up right in the first place. It actually sounds like the printer is cropping the edges. Is any of the artwork being cropped or cut off at one end. If this is the case check your printer settings in the OS dialogue and check if there is a margin setting or a Borderless printing option. This may help.

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Brad_902
Mar 18, 2008
Thanks for that – I’ll give it a shot!

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