Hello all, i've been using an HP photosmart 8250 for a few months now. Overall I really like it but there is one item that is driving me nuts.
When printing, especially when printing a borderless print, some cropping of the photo occurs. This is happening, i believe, to ensure that there is enough "overlap" beyond the edges to ensure a "borderless" print. Even when selecting to print with white borders the same cropping occurs. This is especially maddening when i've added a nice border around the photo and all or part of one side is cropped from the final print.
To avoid losing my borders or edges I've tried numerous settings. even telling the printer to print at say 90% of normal size results in the printer scaling the print back up to fill the 4x6, 5x7, or whatever size i'm printing (I always size the file within photoshop for the size paper i'm using)
To correct this I've tried just about every setting I can find in the printers setup. Regardless of whether I'm printing from Photoshop, or some other program.
What's truly maddening is there seem to be endless settings windows that you can access to set print preferences.
Let's take Photoshop CS2. I can click on Print, then go into printer settings, make changes, and ... same problem.
or.. I can go into print with preview, go into printer settings, find even more printer settings, then even more printer settings within Photoshop itself..... AAAAAAAARRRRRRGGGGH!
Of course the documentation is worthless (HP's). Basically they figure everyone is simply going to insert their CF card and press the print button. Yet they give you a rather complicated and indepth printer selection if printing from a computer with no specific documentation on how to do what you want...
So what do I want? Well... let's start with something easy that I HOPE and PRAY someone knows how to do.
I have file that i've sized for a 4x6 print. I've stroked in a nice boarder around the picture. I want to print that file, centered on that frigging piece of 4x6 paper, reduced in size enough so that everything I did on the computer shows up on the paper!!!
That's not asking for much is it?
Bueller? Bueller? Anyone? Anyone?
thanks a million folks (grin)
Glen