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I'm trying to print a cover for a DS cartridge. The height is just under 11 inches and the width is 4.5 inches so it will fit on normal printer paper of US Legal size. My photoshop preview looks as such -



As you can see, it takes up about half of the page, touching the edges.

However, when I print, I don't get the same results; Theres about 1.5-2 centimeters taken off the height and width when it isn't necessary.



Sorry for the low quality image, but you can see that it's reduced the size of the paper a bit from it's actual size. Anyone know how to fix this?
 

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you have margins on... make sure the margins are off bud
 

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Chronos said:
No margins bruh, they're off.
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Hmmm.... try enlarging the image, so lets say 10x20 and it would print out 8x16 or something like that, just use the trial and error method in black and white.
 

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Difficult said:
Hmmm.... try enlarging the image, so lets say 10x20 and it would print out 8x16 or something like that, just use the trial and error method in black and white.
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I tried a few times; it always has margins on at the very least 2 of the 4 sides of the page. It's never borderless.
 

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Chronos said:
I tried a few times; it always has margins on at the very least 2 of the 4 sides of the page. It's never borderless.
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that's really fucking weird... bro have u tried switching programs? maybe use Word and delete the margins. if that doesnt work its your printer.
 

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Difficult said:
that's really fucking weird... bro have u tried switching programs? maybe use Word and delete the margins. if that doesnt work its your printer.
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I went through the printer, for some reason the print paper size wasn't set to US legal but some other random thing. Printed but still no change :/ The printer driver says theres no margins but now Photoshop has them but they're grayed out and I can't edit them.
 

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Jesus...Well let's get the Bible. I'll pray for you tonight.
 

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Jesus...Well let's get the Bible. I'll pray for you tonight.
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Now for some reason it won't stay as the Legal size :/
 

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This is not photoshop causing this. This is your printer. You will never get a borderless print on your standard home printer.
 

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You cannot get rid of the default margins.
 

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Difficult said:
you have margins on... make sure the margins are off bud
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That has to be the problem, I was having the exact same problem in my digital arts class and my teacher told me to take the margins off.
 

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Difficult said:
that's really fucking weird... bro have u tried switching programs? maybe use Word and delete the margins. if that doesnt work its your printer.
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It is not his printer lol. Btw are you using legal paper? Because standard is letter you said legalabove if you have wrong size selected it might do this.

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This is not photoshop causing this. This is your printer. You will never get a borderless print on your standard home printer.
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No true all printer can do anything. Within their quality and color.
 

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Devour said:
It is not his printer lol. Btw are you using legal paper? Because standard is letter you said legalabove if you have wrong size selected it might do this.

No true all printer can do anything. Within their quality and color.
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Working at a printing supplier, I know what I'm talking about lol. Unless you own a top of the market consumer printer, you won't get borderless prints.
 

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Astro said:
Working at a printing supplier, I know what I'm talking about lol. Unless you own a top of the market consumer printer, you won't get borderless prints.
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I fix printers and copiers for a living.

Astro said:
Working at a printing supplier, I know what I'm talking about lol. Unless you own a top of the market consumer printer, you won't get borderless prints.
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When you print out a demo page out of any machine it is a picture that takes the whole page up.
 
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