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imacken
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January 5, 2012
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Borderless Printing Issues

  • January 5, 2012
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Don't know if this is the appropriate place to ask this, but I just can't work out how to get a borderless print from Illustrator CS5.5 and my Epson 2100 on Mac OS X 10.7.

I don't print a lot, but now I have a need to do so.  When I was using Windows, I didn't have this issue, but on OS X, I'm struggling.

This is what happens.

I have a A3 document with graphics that go edge to edge.  I select A3 (Sheet feeder - borderless) in the Media size box, and have tried selecting 'Do not Scale' and 'Fit to Page'. Both give the same results, i.e. borderless printing, but the document doesn't fit on the page - it is being cropped.

If I select A3 (Standard - minimise margins) in the Media size box, and either of the options mentioned before, then I get the whole document, but with a small margin all around the paper.

Can anyone shed any light on this?

Thanks.

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    jordans28178944
    jordans28178944
    New Participant
    April 9, 2024

    I got the same issue.
    Illustrator printer settings all setup to print boarderless, the preview shows boarderless, then I print and it comes out with a boarder.
    Prints perfectly fine boardless in Photoshop.
    Has been driving me insane for the past few hours.

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      Macy3670349712jy
      New Participant
      April 12, 2024

      Can you tell me how to set up the Illustrator printer settings to print boarderless? I'd love to be able to make a defualt media size of such, but haven't found info on how to.

      jordans28178944
      jordans28178944
      New Participant
      April 13, 2024

      It won't work in illustrator, that's what we're  saying.
      It only worked for me in Photoshop.

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      laptopleon
      Participating Frequently
      February 6, 2016

      I use Preview instead of Illustrator to print because I don't use most options anyway. Finally, after many hours of investigating this problem, I found a workaround how to print borderless at 100%.

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      laptopleon
      Participating Frequently
      January 30, 2016

      I know this is a very old thread, but so are all the threads I find online about this problem and even though years have past, I have the exact same problem, just on a different printer: The printer is physically capable of borderless printing and I have even done so with it, but when printing from Illustrator, Photoshop or Preview, images are scaled up (slightly, to generate bleed) but *still* cropped and finally printed with 3 mm white borders.

      Brother says it's just the way things are, but then I discovered that some pdf's I received that are not generated by me, are in fact printed borderless without any problem..

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        betty-t
        Participating Frequently
        January 8, 2012

        I'm not familiar with that printer or with small printers that produce borderless prints, but is it possible that you need to add some bleed to image? The printer would have to be extremely precise to print an image exactly to the edge of the paper without bleed.

        How much of the image is cropped off? I'd think that if you don't have bleed in your image, the printer would have to enlarge the image by a few percent in order to print to the edge of the paper. So the image would be cropped slightly in the final print.

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        imackenAuthor
        Inspiring
        January 8, 2012

        Thanks a lot for your suggestion.

        I don't think that would help.  It worked perfectly well when I was using Windows, and also, it's not just Illustrator as I've discovered, it's all apps, and you wouldn't be able to add bleed in something like Adobe Reader, for example.

        I'm beginning to think it's an issue with the driver.

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        CHMprepress
        Inspiring
        January 5, 2012

        Do you have the right driver installed?

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        imackenAuthor
        Inspiring
        January 5, 2012

        Yes, Epson 8.61.

        Mike_Gondek10189183
        Mike_Gondek10189183
        Community Expert
        January 5, 2012

        Mike, I appreciate the response, but I'm struggling to see how it helps me.

        The printer driver (allegedly) gives me all the options I need, BUT, it doesn't do what it says it does, i.e. the full page, borderless.  I either get a cropped image printed borderless, or the full page printed with minimal borders.

        Any further ideas?


        There are many printers out there that says they are borderless, but all they do is print closer to the edge. I personally believe manufacturos should not be be able to claim borderless, unless they truly are.

        Though you have a setting that says borderelss, I would try the 2 suggestions i gave you (the .ppd you have form Epson may not be optimized for Illustrator, as they really program that for the photo quicker. If you want to solve your problem you will have to invest the ink and 2 sheets of paper and find out if your printer can truly print to the edge. Also make sure your paper is inserted properly.

        I would call Epson and get their response on the issue, would love to hear their response.

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