MCHUGH Loc: Jacksonville, Texas

I have a Epson XP-830 printer. I use PSE 2021 for my editing software. What is hapening is that when I want to print a photo that I need a copy of it does not print all the photo. It shows all the image when I set it up to print but when it comes out of the printer it does not print all of the shown edges. I don't know if I am setting something up wrong in PSE or if it is a printer problem. It is not a big problem unless I have to have every thing edge to edge in the finished print. UHH has always come to my rescue so please help again. Thanks in advance for any help you can give me.

Longshadow Loc: Audubon, PA, United States

Example?

MCHUGH Loc: Jacksonville, Texas

These three prints will show what I have set, the image as it shows when set to print and a scan of the print it made. I hope this will help to show the problem.

Longshadow Loc: Audubon, PA, United States

Hopefully it will and those knowledgeable will be able to respond!

ndiguy

Just curious if you tried to uncheck the "Center Image" box? Looks like the image is shifted kind of down and to the left as well as truncating the right side.
I don't know the printer, just the only thing I see in the settings that I would try first.

Longshadow Loc: Audubon, PA, United States

One would think when he selected "Center Image", it would.....

ndiguy

Ever hear of the Boeing MCAS system to enhance flight stability?

The Maneuvering Characteristics Augmentation System (MCAS) is a flight stabilizing feature developed by Boeing that became notorious for its role in two fatal accidents of the 737 MAX, which killed all 346 passengers and crew among both flights.

Sometimes with software you don't always get what you think you are supposed to.

Longshadow Loc: Audubon, PA, United States

No, never heard of it.

But yes, I've seen <many> software anomalies.

burkphoto Loc: High Point, NC

When you make BORDERLESS prints, the image is “projected” (sprayed) off the four edges of the print. If you want an EXACT 4.0x6.0 inch image on your print, use 5x7 paper (or half a sheet of 8x10). Then cut off the excess…

Your printer will last longer when there is no ink overspray all over the inside of it.

rleonetti Loc: Portland, Oregon

For a few photos at a time I find Photoshop, Lightroom etc don't always give me what I expect.

So an easy solution, since you have an Epson Printer, is to use "Epson Photo+" which is a program that installs with the printer software (You can probably download from Epson for that matter) There is no instruction manual (but there is an extensive help file) but a brief fiddle with the tools and a .jpg will get you going very quickly.

It seemed silly to move things to a separate program for printing, but you get just what you want and the ability to layout and print multiple photos on one page. It becomes easy to use.

If you have lots of photos to print, I go to Blurb.com and use their Bookwright software, also quite easy to use, and have them print a book. I have printed 15 books of 50 to 120 pages each with my photos. Easy to do; I'm a big fan.

saparoo Loc: Atlanta, GA

Do you have the correct paper size checked?

RayofSunshine Loc: Nashua, NH

Is the photo cropped to 4x6 before printing in LR or photoshop.

yssirk123 Loc: New Jersey

Is there a fit-to-page setting in your printer software?

delder Loc: Maryland

I have run into the SAME problem with getting "Drugstore" prints. This goes back to Film Photography, and I find I have to shoot wider so that I can retain edge details in the final print.
ALSO Check your EXACT aspect ratio!

burkphoto Loc: High Point, NC

As an ex-lab guy I can tell you that all borderless printers, both optical and digital, have to project the image WIDER than the paper. Depending upon the device, an image may be enlarged 2% to 5% more than the image size on the negative or in the digital file. This "spillover" ensures that the edges have no white border.

If you want exactly the pixels in the file, nothing more and nothing less, you should print on paper larger than the image dimensions.

This is what they DON'T tell you when selling you on the idea of getting borderless prints: You find out very quickly that a frame will cover up details near the edge of a borderless print, if they weren't already chopped by the unintended crop required to print without borders!

I had a big debate about borderless with the marketing director of our new owners when our lab was bought in 1996. She insisted we spend hundreds of thousands of dollars on capital improvements to modify our printers so they could make borderless prints. Of course she won, but she admitted that borderless prints weren't very practical. We used the modified optical printers for maybe six years before recycling them as scrap when we bought digital mini-labs.