There is probably a simple solution to this problem, but for the life of me, I have been dealing with this problem for the last 2-3 months and its very aggravating. I have two printers; a Canon Pixma Pro 9000 Mark II and a Brother MFC-240 multifunction. I use the canon for my wedding and engagement photography and my brother for day to day printing. The problem lies with printing 8x10 photos. Most photos are very large (2000+ pixels by 4000+ pixels) and when I go to print 8x10 photos using either printer, all software (picasa3, photoshop cs3, canon printing software etc) the images get severely cropped on the tops and bottoms of the images. I use "crop to fit" because when I use scale to fit, it crops too much off at the sides. I expect some cropping would happen, but here is why I consider it odd. 1. It never used to be that way...it only started happening a few months ago, right around the time I installed the drivers for the canon. 2. All other size images (4x6, 5x7, wallets and larger than 8x10) all print fine with no cropping at all. All printer and software drivers are completely up to date. I have even re-sized images and the same cropping for 8x10 still takes place. All printer settings and print settings are correct for the paper size, orientation etc. I have been doing this forever and never had a problem until a few months ago and all of the sudden it started the severe cropping. Any ideas?? thanks!

Terry,

I downloaded the trial version of Qimage and while I do see its qualities, the same thing occurs. I understand what you are saying completely and I also expect cropping to occur, however, I would expect even more cropping to occur the smaller I make the print. For example, a 4x6 print should have more cropping than an 8x10 print since there is less printing area. However, in my case, the opposite is happening...the larger the print, the more cropping that is happening. What I am wondering is why no cropping occurs on my 4x6 and 5x7 but a ton happens with 8x10? I am hard pressed to believe that all my drivers for both my printers and every piece of software I own with printing capabilities are messed up; especially since they are all up to date and I have tried rolling them back, completely uninstalling them etc.

More info: Camera: Pentax kx DLSR; I listed my printers in the first post. Image sizes average 2848x4132. I print around 5-7 wedding or engagement shoots a month and this is not a problem that has been happening up until the last few months. Trust me, I would have noticed before then if it was happening  Once again, it is on every piece of software and every printer. Thank you for your reply. The reason I posted here was because I found the forum through google and everyone seemed very knowledgeable, as I get a little sick of posting elsewhere and having rude replies, so this is nice for a change 

Sounds like a driver has "scaling" turned on and is enlarging the print.
In Qimage, try turning off teh crop scissors before you insert your image. Select the print size you want.   (8 x 10) 
Depending on the size of the image from the camera, you will get a reported print actual size in Qimage when you look in the queue; the lower left box, below the thumbnails.
If your camera produces 3:2 image sizes, then the print size is going to be 10.0 x 6.67.
If your camera image is a 4:3 ratio, the print size will come up with 10.0 x 7.50.

The point is, whatever Qimage is reporting as the print size, is the information that it is sending to the printer.
Let's make a print and see what we get.
If the print size is correct but you still have cut off portions, then there's some zoom gadget turned on in the driver.
Fred