File|Print with Preview. Click Page Setup. Select the custom paper you defined before. Click on Printer, set up your properties, okay it all. Print.
Does the HP 1215 support printing to the edge at that size? I could not find that info on the HP web site. My hunch is that it does not. My Epson of similar size only prints borderless to 8×10.
Gary
Hi,
Thanks for the prompt reply! However, this does not let me adjust the margins, only the paper size. On your process, before I press the printer button, that box, I was able to adjust the margins and set them to 0 before, now they are uneditable. Any other ideas?
Dan
Hi Gary,
Thanks for the prompt reply as well.
I can print all the way to the edge, if the margins are set to 0, I can adjust the "position" on print|preview. I did it before, somehow, by changing the margins in page setup – under user defined page size (although technically I could have changed the margins on any of the paper sizes)…but now it won’t let me change any of the margins.
Dan
Dan,
That printer does not have borderless printing. You cannot print to the edges of paper normally. The reason you were able to do it before is because of your Paper Size. You had a custom paper size that was larger than 8.5 x 11. That’s the only way to "fool" the system, and not a good idea at that.
Sigh.
Thanks.
Regardless of whether or not I can or can’t do it. Why isn’t that option (to change the margins) even available anymore?
It never was. Photoshop reads what is set in your default printer driver. It’s just letting you know what the margins are.
Actually I was able to edit the margin size on the "User Define Paper Size". It’s greyed out to the last settings I left it at.
Well then you have something special going on. The only way I have ever been able to edit margins is in the printer driver when you define custom pages. Photoshop reads that custom page, and the margins, and reports that information in the Page Setup window. Margins are hard coded by the printer driver because there is a physical limit to where it can print. So what one typically does, is they "fool" the printer into printing onto the "unprintable" areas by defining a custom page size – 9 x 12, for example. The page still has the margin limitations of the printer, but since the actual paper is 8.5×11, those margins are never reached.
The fact that you can see your last settings is because you defined it in the printer driver, not photoshop.
Gotcha!
Thanks for the input.
I’m having a similar problem. I’m trying to print a line of text which is 17 inches long. I can set my printer for legal or banner paper but when I try to send the image from photoshop I always get the message "image is larger than paper’s printable area". I have no idea how to change the "printable area". Is this a photoshop boundary or something with my printer? The max I get printed is 11.5 iches. Immediate help please – project due on Tuesday!
Demo,
First, read the entire thread.
Your image must be smaller than your paper or you will get that message.
File|Print with Preview. Click Page setup, click Printer, click Properties. Choose your media, okay everything.
If your paper is 17 inches, and your text is 17 inches, you cannot print without clipping or scaling (in the print preview dialog). Your printer has PHYSICAL limits.
Make your image smaller, not necessarily the text. Many people think Photoshop behaves like MS Word – you define a page and print it. NO!! You define an image size, and photoshop puts it on whatever your printer driver has set as the page size.
