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live in the now
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August 5, 2012
Question

How print exact dimensions of image?

  • August 5, 2012
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I have resized the image in Photoshop CS5 using Perfect Resize.  The image dimensions are 20.00 inches x 13.33 inches.

In the Lightroom print module, I chose these settings:

  • cell size to 20.00 in x 13.33 in. 
  • All the margins are set to 0.00. 
  • "Zoom to Fill" is not checked.
  • Page Setup:  17 x 22 paper.  Manual - rear-borderless (retain size)

The size printed is 20.5 in x 13.75 in

What should I be doing to get the print size to match the cell size of 20.00 x 13.33?

Information:

Lightroom version 4.1

Mac OS:  10.6.8

Printer:  Epson 3880

File:  Tiff

Thanks!

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Jogi73
Participant
August 5, 2012

If I set up my Epson Stylus Photo R800 for borderless printing, it will scale the page a little larger than the real dimensions. EPSON says this is a feature to avoid thin white borders around the image because you will always have tolerances in the paper conveying system and in the position of the paper within the printer.

So what you have to do is: Switch off the borderless printing. Then you won't have any scaling of the print. Unfortunatelly you will have the (in my case) 3 mm white borders all around because it's the maximum standard printing area. But as far as I can see you want to print smaller than you paper size anyway. So you shouldn't have trouble with this. So just switch off the borderless printing.

L
live in the nowAuthor
Participant
August 5, 2012

Jogi73, thanks for the suggestion.

In the Print Module, I chose Page Setup and the US C 17 x 22in  (Manual - Rear)

This was the selection that turned off borderless printing.

The size printed was 20.5 in x 13.75 in - still does not match the cell size of 20.00 in x 13.33 in

Any other suggestions?

L
live in the nowAuthor
Participant
August 6, 2012

For anyone who is interested, these are the Lightroom settings that enabled the print size to match the actual image dimensions:

  1. Resize the image in Photoshop CS5 using Perfect Resize. 
  2. In the Lightroom print module, I chose these settings:
  • Cell size set to match the image dimensions.  The photo was sized to the same aspect ratio as the cell size/print size.
  • All the margins are set to 0.13, which is the minimum.
  • "Zoom to Fill" is checked.
  • Page Setup:  choose paper size and manual - rear.  Make sure you do not choose borderless unless you are printing a borderless photo. When you print borderless the printer driver enlarges the photo slightly to ensure edge to edge coverage.
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