![]() ![]() You’re going through an old box of memories and you come across a stack of slides that you haven’t seen in years. Ironically, I consistently print 300 cards that way without a single unprinted edge, so even that old printer registers the cards more accurately than the software gives it credit for.A scanned slide before and after fading correction performed by VueScan At least now I know what's going on with that. I figured out several years ago that to avoid unintended cropping, I had to tell Illustrator to reduce to 98% in one dimension and 97% in the other. I design the cards in Illustrator, so I know exactly where the edges are. I never knew until reading here the past couple of days why my image was always slightly cropped in printing. Well, I'll also study that Epson printer some more, including determining whether the Epson sales agent actually knows their product better than the HP sales agent knows theirs. I do get some ink on the edges of the cards, so there was room for improvement, for sure. Perhaps the entire platen was somewhat capable of dealing with ink on it. I guess borderless printing was less sophisticated when it was made. I suppose I'll put my old Photosmart D5460 back into service and deal with its issues as long as it continues to work. (I buy them from Paper Direct.) The other is that since the matching edges would differ - it really is a full bleed print of art work - the cuts would have to be very precise, and I would have to make about 160 such cuts each December. One is that the cards I like only come in 8.5x5.5. Yes, I realized that I could print 8.5x11 and cut. The price of that printer doesn't bother me much, and I might end up using some of the additional capabilities, but it would take up a LOT more space. The only other current printer I've identified which supposedly can do this is the Epson Surecolor P400. So has anyone actually printed borderless custom sizes on an 8700 series printer, or at least attempted to set up to do so? (On the 6978, I was stopped by the print driver from even setting it up.) That's exactly the wording in the specs for the 6978, which does not print borderless on custom media sizes. My understanding from reading is that the 8740 differs from the 8720 only in having an additional paper try, and the 8720 specs say "Borderless printing: Yes, up to 8.5 x 11 in (US letter), 210 x 297 mm (A4)". The specs for the 8740 have the vague statement "Borderless printing: Yes, Edge to Edge for A4 and Edge to Edge for Letter size". I would like to believe them, but the specs leave me suspicious. ![]() I asked HP sales what printers could do what I need: print borderless on 8.5x5.5" card stock. (I don't know why but I assume it has to do with physical characterics of borderless printing.) I returned it. I gave up on trying to get the OJP 6978 to printer custom sizes borderless, since neither HP support nor the forum could figure out how to do it, and the best info I've found is that most current inkjet printers offering borderless printing only support specific paper sizes. ![]() Business PCs, Workstations and Point of Sale Systems.Printer Wireless, Networking & Internet.DesignJet, Large Format Printers & Digital Press.Printing Errors or Lights & Stuck Print Jobs.Notebook Hardware and Upgrade Questions. ![]()
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