Hi Ernst,
Yes, but others had said otherwise elsewhere, perhaps I should have posted there instead.
It's not so bad when you are aware of it. I recently checked the FPE and the arrow keys give incremental movements of 0.15 mm. Once you know that, good precision can be obtained.
Terry

Ernst
I agree with everything you have said, I can see the differences in borders you mentioned and can trim even borders without measuring, but few people without printing (or engineering  ) experience can. It's always nice to be exact, and I always try to be, but sometimes it's not necessary depending on the end user. When I said trimming to 1mm could be a problem,  I was thinking of some of the folks I used to work with  (I've recently retired).

My original point was that the 3800 paper feed is not precise or exact, although the printing is. When I worked with a 7600 I could print or overprint and be totally confident of the feed, this is not the case with the 3800 (in my experience).

Terry, I'll try your suggestion later.

Brian

Hi Oldfox,

It's pity this diagram was not shown earlier on, it makes it quite clear what your requirements are.

You are right. Your requirement shows in effect unequal borders, 2 at 7mm and 2 at 10mm and Qimage does not do unequal borders.
I assumed, because borderless does not work, that with having to have page margins, you would either accept a smaller image or smaller borders and trim the page margins from the print.
Oh well, after a few diversions we got there but probably not to your satisfaction.

I just remembered, all is not lost because there is a way to do it in Qimage. It's a bit complicated and involves having a plain white image behind each picture, which is larger and offset from the picture. The white background image creates the border. If this is a regular requirement, a template can be made, so just the picture images need be added.
If you want more explanation, come back to me.
Terry

I thought that the first picture in the first post would show what I wanted. Sorry that it was not clear enough.

Thx for your help. This exercise has been useful to me, still.

Cunning idea. It could work for the sides of the paper, what about the leading edge (short side)? It would be difficult to fool the printer edge sensing for that 
Terry

Hi Terry,


If it's a white border, (hopefully narrower than the desired border around each photo) then you will most likely have to turn off any printed crop marks, and reposition the templates, but probably easier to just make the required extra guillotine cut. An alternative would be to mount the A4 sheet on a larger carrier, similar to folk who manage to print on canvas using printers not designed for that, but that is even more fiddly. If you print on a roll, however, it can probably be ignored (but the op is not using roll paper).

But, if it is white borders you turn off the borders/crop marks in qimage then the problem goes away. I think you could generate a custom template and simply position the images as required and use a stop on the guillotine to give the even borders. ( I may have missed something here, the original question is not in my memory )

Best wishes,

Ray

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Jeff  

Hi (young)Fox 
I'm pleased to hear you got it sorted. I hope you've saved that set-up for future use.
Thanks for letting us know.
Terry