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[w1lz]

Im making a poster for a charity. In photoshop i made it "A4" size as its an A4 poster... but whenever i come to print it to show them the ideas, it always cuts of a border of about 2 inches... and also says "the printer can not print this size of paper, it will cut your image" yet its an A4 printer >;/?

Anyone know what im doin wrong :x?

cheers,
w1lz

Edited by w1lz, 31 July 2007 - 06:18 AM.

[Jacorre]

Is your printer capable of printing paper of that size? Have you set the printer to know that it should print paper of that size? Usually printers default to printing Letter size (8-1/2x11).

[Lastcrime]

when you go to print in the properties look at the margins that could be the problem though im not sure about an a4 printer i know that used to happen on my printer its not an A4 though.

[SatanicPenguins]

^ what last crime said, The laser printer and the inkjet printers at my house both wont print DIRECTLY to the edge i believe, always gonna have a tiny border. But you should be able to get it smaller than 2 inches

[Dance]

A standard office/desktop printer usually needs about a inch in margin relative to the paper, a larger office printer/copying machine needs about a centimeter, a industry printer needs about 0.5cm and a print press needs about 0.3cm. stuff that you see without borders are always cut afterwards with either a hydraulic papercutter or a manual one. It ain't a application issue, its just the way it is to keep the interior of the machines clean from ink.

[SatanicPenguins]

Case Solved?, Dance STRIKES AGAIN!

[w1lz]

hmmm, not sure that you guys fully understood...
I'll explain,

I have a border yeh, its like 1 cm or so, that isnt the problem, the problem is the image seems to be zoomed in, so you only see the middle part of the poster, and its much more than just 1 cm worth. So i could describe it as being "zoomed" or "streched" (but the image doesnt look streched).

If you dont understand now, im gonna have to draw a diagram:D?

Let me know:)...

thanks,
w1lz

Edited by w1lz, 31 July 2007 - 07:39 PM.

[SatanicPenguins]

Printing at the wrong DPI?

[w1lz]

Printing at the wrong DPI?

explain;/?

[Dance]

As satanic said its because your image resolution (DPI, Dots Per Inch) isnt high enough for the format you want to print it in. When you want a image to look as good as the screen as printed at the same size it needs to have resolution of at least 150 dpi = low quality print to 300 dpi = high quality print and preferred resolution. You set the resolution of the document at the new document dialog or under the image menu<image size while in document.

Faken wrote a tutorial on the issue of DPI awhile back. http://www.danrichar...e-dpi-equation/

[w1lz]

Right, thank you, excellent guide!

Thanks,
w1lz

[Stu]

or in the print preview dialogue just tick the box that says 'scale to fit media'

Edited by Stu, 02 August 2007 - 07:40 AM.

[SatanicPenguins]

Wont that degrade the quality of the print?

[Stu]

no if the image size is actually larger than a4, scaling the image up will though.