Why in the crap... [Archive] - Talk Photography

F-Stop

15-04-2008, 00:44

Does lightroom cut off my photos when I'm printing them? I'm printing 4x6's and it seems to be printing at 5.5 x4. In the print module, I have it set for 4x6, but it still cuts it off.

Chappers

15-04-2008, 07:56

Check you've got the borders set to 0

fletch5

15-04-2008, 08:09

I had a program like that, it listed both 4x6 and 10cm x 15cm and they were both different.:shrug:

gman

15-04-2008, 08:15

Another thing to check is the borderless tab in the printer setup. I spent hours trying to work out why my printer was not printing things accurately (to the mm) and eventually discovered that checking the borderless tab appears to enlarge the image by a few %!!! :eek:

F-Stop

15-04-2008, 17:53

I guess I just need to play around with it a bit more. The settings you guys suggested are what I was using... I'm missing something though... I'm sure it's just user error. :D

gman

15-04-2008, 18:14

Try downloading this: http://www.decadry.com/en/downloadfree.asp?Soft=DPS5setup_EN_free.exe

It's one of those business card software programs but it has a printer calibration tool next to the print option which is pretty good for checking out that your printer is aligned correctly etc.

F-Stop

15-04-2008, 18:25

Sweet. I'll give it a try. Thanks, gman.

F-Stop

17-04-2008, 02:49

Turns out my particular printer simply can't print a full 6x4. Nuts huh. HP even makes special paper for it that has a perferrated(sp?) paper for it. Oh well. :)