Page Margins

[Chamenas]

I know I dont post here as often as I would like anymore, but I've been busy. Right now I'm trying to make a large poster for an event on campus. It will be made up of several sheets of 8.5x11 paper. The problem is that it requires one constant background color (black) and will have edges connecting, but printers like to throw in page margins, which will throw this off. I was wondering how I might plan for and avoid this potential road block....

[tamlin]

What sort of printer are you using? My printers (both Epson) have a setting for borderless printing - maybe yours does too?

[paulopires]

You can cut the edges of the paper.

[shaunes001]

Perhaps the image is not the right scale to fit the paper? try "print with preview" in the File menu of photoshop, there should be a small tick boxmarked "scale to fit media". Thats as close are your going to get to filling the page unless u transform on the page itself (without scale to fit media). But there is risk of cutting off some of your work and the quality being vastly reduced.

The other way of course is re-scaling the image itself to fit. Select all of your work by using Select->All, then Copy. Open a new document, there's a preset size of A4, select that in the drop down menu in Preset. Then paste, and use free transform to fill the new document. This may reduce quality so be carefull. Then, again, print with preview, scale to fit media and u should have a whole print filled.

Its not that photoshop puts margins in for the sake of it, its just the image itself not being the right proportions to fill the A4 sheet, wheather it be its too long or too wide.

Correct size of A4 in pixels is 2480x3508

Hope thats shed some light on your issue, if not send me a message and I'll try to help you on any areas your not sure of

Teh S1

[notjustgraphics]

Shaunes:

Chamenas' problem is caused by his printer... not photoshop.

Many printers have a 1/16" or 1/8" margin down the side of any paper size that they physically cannot print to.

This margin is usually used by grippers to feed the paper accurately through the printer.

Mike.

[Chamenas]

Originally Posted by shaunes001

Perhaps the image is not the right scale to fit the paper? try "print with preview" in the File menu of photoshop, there should be a small tick boxmarked "scale to fit media". Thats as close are your going to get to filling the page unless u transform on the page itself (without scale to fit media). But there is risk of cutting off some of your work and the quality being vastly reduced.

I'm very in touch with "scale to fit Media" since I use 300dpi in all my print work. Unfortunately the printer will make margins even from that.

Notjustgraphics - Indeed, so does that mean I really have no option? I know it wont be printing from my printer, we have a copy center on campus and that's where I will be printing it since it will be so ink intensive.