Fred,

I do a lot of performing arts plays - I photograph during the final dress rehersal, choose and process about 50 images, then print them and deliver the prints the next day for mounting on the auditorium foyer walls prior to the first performance the next day.  It makes for a long night and I do not want to have to handle or trim the images after they are printed - just package and deliver.  Because these images are viewed by a lot of folks during the three days of performances, I want them to look as professional as possible.  Because I don't make a lot on a per print basis, I want to keep my costs down as best I can - no wasted ink for borderless, and labor and time to a minimum - no trimming.

Terry-M, I found the Printable area option - my maximum is greyed out and not selectable.  I will give centered a try later this evening - I just received an order for some images and need to get them done so my lab in CA can ship today.

I really appreciate all of your guidance and support.

Bill

Ok, then follow Terry's guidelines. I can get even margins top and bottom, and even margins of the side to side, but the two pairs are different sizes, leading me to believe that one pair needs trimming.
I made an 8.5 x 11 cropped image to match what you have...
I think Terry's uncle is Merlin!!

Fred

and
No, I just got the page size wrong 11.5 x8 ins  
But you get the idea.

Maybe it's related to some other setting in the driver, page size even?

Terry.

I've just checked Standard-Centered.
The Full Page Editor reports, in Portrait mode, 0.55" top, 0.56" bottom and 0.12" at each side. Qimage says it can't center exactly due to the driver.
Terry.
PS. that's using fit to page, the biggest size possible on the page.

Here's the screen snap.
See the even margins all the way around.

Top and bottom equal, left and right side equal is OK all equal preferred with the crop ration 8.5x11.  I cropped to 8.5x11 ratio thinking I will get even margins when I fit to page.  Easier said than done.  I have managed to get the opposite sides equal, but not sure it is the largest image.  How are you determining if the printed image is centered and boarders even without an actual print?  Does the Epson preview represent the actual paper area and margins?

Thanks for all of the ideas, I really appreciate your help.

Bill

That is impossible!
The 8.5x11 page has a ratio of 1.294  (long side divided by short side)
If for example, you place an image on that page with a 0.5 inch border, the image is 7.5x10. This is a ratio of 1.333

Looking at the other way round, an image with the 8.5x11 ratio (1.294) with say 10" dimension on the long side, the short side will be 7.73"
This is equivalent to margins of 0.5" and 0.385".

It's all in the maths 
Terry.

Right

I made the largest centered image with same size margins on all 4 sides.
I think that is what he wanted in the first place. Somewhere, he said after we spent a lot of time trying to keep his 8.5 x 11 size print, that the actual print size wasn't that important, but equal margins was the goal.
Fred