Epson Photo 1280 Printer:4x6 borderless printing in Fedora-Core 1 problem

Elton Woo elwoo at videotron.ca
Thu Jan 8 05:48:07 UTC 2004


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Mail List wrote:

|Hi all,
|I'm having problem printing the photo with 4x6 setting.  Under
fedora-core 1

It would help greatly if you mention exactly what brand and model
printer it is! <G>

|
|the borderless    feature is not working. My picture is in 4x6 format
and I am
|using the gimp-print as recommended. In the preview I can see the pictures
|100%
|filled up the printing area but when I print I got the border on left and
|the
|bottom.  I wonder if any one with this printer can print 4x6 picture
without
|the border.

This is just "shooting in the dark", but perhaps it might give you some
direction in which to go towards a solution to the problem. *My* printer
is an HP Deskjet 3420. Borderless printing is actually NOT a feature of
this printer, yet I got a similar result today whilst "playing around"
with sending a print job in The Gimp.

My paper stock is 7" x 8.5", and initially I tried playing around with
the paper sizes in redhat-printer configuration. However, my more
successful result was when I left the default
printer setup as "letter" ( 8.5" x11"). In Gimp, I chose Print -->
Printer Settings. Then I switched "Media size" from "letter" to custom,
and fiddled with various paper sizes.

At one point I got a similar result as you did: there was white space
around three sides of the paper, but the print went right to the fourth
edge (effectively a "borderless" side). I even tried setting the custom
size to _less than_ the paper size (7"x 8.5"), and also experimented with
loading the paper either lengthways, or sideways. I have not succeeded
in obtaining a borderless print, but this indicates that it might be
feasible, even with a printer which is not normally
expected to do borderless prints.

I hope this is of some help to you...

Elton ;-)

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