Tried printing an 8.5x11 photo on 8.5x11 fine art paper and it said my picture was too big..why?

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I have a canon pro-100 and for software use Lightroom and Photoshop. I did up a picture to try out the printer and the ilford gold fiber silk paper. My photo size was 8.5x11 and so was the paper. When I go to print it tells me I'm printing outside the printable area and clipping will occur. If I check the fit to page box it shrinks the picture by almost 25%. The printer offers borderless printing so I don't understand why it's misbehaving. I wasted 3 sheets of paper till I came out with an image approximately 7x9 with white border all around it. There seems to be a lot to print workflow.....people are right when they say print making is an art. Any ideas why the printer seems to have a mind of its own as far as size goes? I tell the printer settings that I'm using fine art 8.5x11 paper yet my 8.5x11 image was too large to print...

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Tried printing an 8.5x11 photo on 8.5x11 fine art paper and it said my picture was too big..why?

I have a canon pro-100 and for software use Lightroom and Photoshop. I did up a picture to try out the printer and the ilford gold fiber silk paper. My photo size was 8.5x11 and so was the paper. When I go to print it tells me I'm printing outside the printable area and clipping will occur. ...

Answer 2

You need to set the options in your print driver, set it to print borderless, and set the proper sheet size, paper type, and print quality, etc. etc.



The message that you are printing outside the printable area is fine, that's totally normal - it simply means your image is being cropped. Photoshop will always display that message if printing goes over the edge of the sheet (or if you use borderless printing). That won't prevent you from printing it. It's just a warning that you will get cropping. It doesn't mean your image is too big to be printed.



If you want to take control of how your image is cropped, then you will have to crop the image to fit the aspect ratio of the sheet you are printing it on, before you print it.



In Photoshop to crop to the same aspect ratio as 8.5" x 11" choose the crop tool. In the options along the top type 8.5in and 11in in the width and height boxes. Keep the resolution field blank. Click and drag on your image until you get a crop you like. Hit the enter key to accept the crop.

Answer 3

You are not making it clear if you are, or are not, actually opening the paper size pick list and selecting size 8.5 x 11 BORDERLESS. Unless you tell it so, the printer does not know what size paper is loaded in the printer and that you are wanting to print a photo with no borders.



steve

Answer 4

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Answer 5

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