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Title: Print margins on A4 to create 2 A5 prints Post by: Molly1961 on March 10, 2019, 11:52:12 AM Hi,
I have just downloaded the Qimage Ultimate demo software to see if this is going to help me create Giclee prints. I have a Canon Pro10S printer and am a total newbie to all of this... I hope to sell primarily A5 format prints. As it is not possible to get a type of Canson paper that I like in A5 format, I have to buy it in A4 format. I am trying to get around this issue by creating a file where I place 2 identical images on an A4 document, calculating exactly the same white border to be around the image and then cutting it into two A5 prints. I am printing in portrait mode. The trouble is that I am not getting identical margins on the prints (L,R and T). Rather than wasting more expensive paper, just wondering if this is the correct way of doing this, or if I am going wrong somewhere: I am circumventing the 30mm margin on art paper enforced by the Canon printer, by selecting a Matte Photo Paper and used the following settings: Ticked "prevent paper abrasion" in print settings. Disable overspray and print expansion Select borderless printing (I do have a 1.5cm white border around the image) (see attached image where red indicates where the white border is going to be) The quality of the print is excellent, but the margins are off. Looking at the page margins I can see the option "center on physical page", but margins L/R are different to T/B. I get 0.1967 and 0.2 for top and bottom and 0.1333 and 0.1350 respectively for left and right. Even if I were to cut the paper to A5 format, I would still have differing L/R to T/B margins. The aim is to have the same margins at the top, left and right for each A5 area. Can anyone shed any light on how I can resolve this. Many thanks in advance. Kind regards Bea Title: Re: Print margins on A4 to create 2 A5 prints Post by: admin on March 10, 2019, 02:48:55 PM The Canon Pro-10 enforces a fixed margin of .0017 inches on the right and bottom sides when printing borderless. You can see this if you go to Edit, Preferences, Print and Page Formatting, Page Margins. That's four one hundredths of a millimeter. Are you sure that is even discernable in a print? If it bothers you, you can open that Edit, Preferences, Print and Page Formatting, Page Margins, and enter .0017 as the total margin on the left and top sides too, to make all four sides even.
Regards, Mike Title: Re: Print margins on A4 to create 2 A5 prints Post by: Molly1961 on March 13, 2019, 08:39:21 AM Thank you for your response Mike. Unfortunately, I somehow ended up with a solid black bar being printed at the bottom of the page. I will have to reset the settings and try it out again.
Title: Re: Print margins on A4 to create 2 A5 prints Post by: admin on March 13, 2019, 02:42:16 PM Thank you for your response Mike. Unfortunately, I somehow ended up with a solid black bar being printed at the bottom of the page. I will have to reset the settings and try it out again. The only thing I can think of that would cause that would be if you used some sort of black mat or border, or your page background color was set to black. Mike |