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Thread ID: 58190	2005-05-24 07:49:00	Sizing images in photoshop	heaton (3697)	Press F1

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358000	2005-05-24 07:49:00	Using photoshop and win XP I am trying to size pictures to cover an entire page of A4 paper which is approx 29.75 cm wide in a landscape format. So I go to resize picture and make the size 29.75 but when I print it out there is a gap of about 3.2 cm at the side. In other words the picture is only 26.2cm wide. Help appreciated.	heaton (3697)
358001	2005-05-24 07:56:00	For a start A4 is 297mm x 210mm, does your printer do borderless prints?	plod (107)
358002	2005-05-24 08:03:00	My effort doesn't - I know that doesn't help you much! Perhaps a few more details would help us to help you... My 29.75cm wide (in landscape) layout printed with a 35 mm white border all around. I DIDN'T tell the program to scale to fit to media (a box to tick/not tick). See if that makes a difference. Cheers R.M.	R.M. (561)
358003	2005-05-24 12:23:00	Many printers don't print right to the edge of the paper. Ink jets, for example, need friction on the bottom edge to hold the paper in place. Once the rollers let go there is no friction so any printing would be distorted - and it won't let you do this.	Mercury (1316)
358004	2005-05-25 00:06:00	Many printers don't print right to the edge of the paper. Ink jets, for example, need friction on the bottom edge to hold the paper in place. Once the rollers let go there is no friction so any printing would be distorted - and it won't let you do this. This seems to be the most logical explanation. Thanks. I will have to live with the 32mm white unprinted bit on the bottom of each page. Thanks again.	heaton (3697)
358005	2005-05-25 03:25:00	You could have a play with Page Setup to try and reduce the size of the borders. In Word if you set the margins to 0 as soon as you exit setup it blows a raspberry and says something along the lines of "You can't do this... do you want me to fix it?" You say "Yes please" and it sets it to the minimum the printer will allow. If you have Word you can do the above and see what the permittable borders are then use these settings in Photoshop. Play with Photoshop and see how narrow you can get it.	Mercury (1316)
358006	2005-05-25 03:39:00	1] If your printer does borderless printing then it will be an option (usually a tick box) accessed from the print driver. When you go to print from PS, click on "Properties" next to the printer name in the print dialgue. Look through the options available (it differs with each print driver) to see if there is a borderless option. Lasers do not have borderless as an option. A modern inkjet should. 2] You are best to not try and resize the image for print dimensions in PS unless the image is way way way to big and you want to save print time. And if it is too small, you don't gain anyhting much by having PS resize it up. All you have to do is use the "Print with preview" option in PS and then choose "Scale to fit media". This will print the image to fit the chosen media, but will likely leave a small margin (make sure you've set the borderless option id available). What I do normally leave this option unticked and just put in percentage sizes in the "scale" entry box. You can adjust the value here and get a preview of how it will look. Much easier than messing about physically re-sizing the image if you don't need to and it leaves your original image unaltered. Lets you zoom in a print just a portion of the image too -- un-tick the "Center image" box and then you can move the preview image aroudn with your mouse to postion it just right.	Biggles (121)
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