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August 24, 2023
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Print borderless with InDesign and Epson P706

  • August 24, 2023
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Hello,

I have tried everything including setting all bleeds, slugs and margins to zero. I have gone into print preferences and selected borderless. I have been in tech support with Epson and they say the printer supports borderless. Still no solution. Please help!

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James Gifford—NitroPress
Legend
August 24, 2023

Is the printer leaving (unprinted) white margins - not printing the outer rim of the page - or scaling the page down to fit within margins?

Peter Spier
Community Expert
Community Expert
August 24, 2023
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Is the printer leaving (unprinted) white margins - not printing the outer rim of the page - or scaling the page down to fit within margins?


By @James Gifford—NitroPress

I know nothing about this printer, but my impression has always been printing borderless involved scaling the page content UP rather than down so it bleeds what was originally at the page edge and losing just a bit of content.

I think we need some clarification, as requested from the OP.

James Gifford—NitroPress
Legend
August 24, 2023

Some printer (drivers) might do that, but my experience is that borderless==photo printing and for stock of standard photo sizes, printing was 1:1.

 

It may be that this printer and others like it only do borderless up to, say, 8x10, and does not allow it on larger sheets. 

Robert at ID-Tasker
Legend
August 24, 2023

Can you show us a picture of what you get from your printer? Just in case... 

 

Derek Cross
Community Expert
Community Expert
August 24, 2023

Have you tried printing from a PDF?

Participating Frequently
August 25, 2023

Yaaaaaaay! I can't believe it! It worked when I exported and printed as a pdf!!

Thank you Derek and Robert, James and Peter for all your help. I don't understand why but maybe that's not important now. Thank you all, for your time. I attached a before and after pic.

Peter Spier
Community Expert
Community Expert
August 25, 2023
Thanks Peter. I'm definitely on a learning curve. I'll be looking at ID tasker too.

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When working with this printer it's important to understand whether your content is being scaled up for borderless printing, or scaled down for standard printing with a border.

While Robert's suggestion for doing a test print with numbers at the edge is one good method off determining this (and I used to print a test sheet with precisely scaled numbers -- essentially mini rulers -- extending out both ways from the center on the x/y axes near the edges to see not only scaling but positional drift off center) you should be able to tell from your two prints you posted by comparing the distance of the star or rabbit ears to the edge of the print area with the measured distance to the edge of the page in InDesign (the Measure Tool is grouped with the Eyedropper).