incomplete crop lines in print module

[RJS55]

I need to print 8x10 with a 1/4 white border all around.  

My solution was to use a 1/4" white stroke border and print the crop lines.

However, only the vertical crop strokes are printing--not the horizontal.  I will have to do very careful and error-prone measuring to trim the unmarked dimension.

How do I fix the crop strokes?  Is there another solution?

Is there a way to print a line around the 8x10 cell size and still have a 1/4 white border inside the cell?

Thanks in advance,

R

[JimHess]

Have you cropped the image to 8 x 10" in the develop module before going to the print module?

[RJS55]

Yes.

[RJS55]

I am printing on 8.5x11 paper.  I crop the image to 8x10 in Develop.  But my goal is to print the image 7.5x9.5 with a 1/4" border inside the 8x10 size.  My solution was to use a white  1/4" stroke border  and use the "Crop Marks" to guide me to the right places to cut.  

My problem is the crop marks are not printing correctly.  I even tried using the "Page Background Color" to show where to crop and leave the 1/4 border, but even that isn't printing correctly.

Is anyone else having this problem? Or, more importantly, know of a work-around? or where to get tech help?

[richardplondon · Accepted solution]

You are probably hitting the unprintable part of the page, with your crop marks and also if you set a background colour. Perhaps consider changing print settings to a borderless mode, but if doing so, make sure to use a true-to-scale option for borderless printing, if that is available. Otherwise with a standard - not true to scale - borderless mode, everything would get silently enlarged by a few % in the printing, and so not keep to requested dimensions. 

So far as your image's aspect ratio: you can directly set a print cell to the required dimensions. Then you can set a Zoom to Fill option for this cell, which duly auto-crops your image to the right shape on the fly as needed - so, just for the purposes of this particular output, and without altering the image's current general-purpose aspect ratio that is otherwise seen in Develop or in Library or when Exported.

[RJS55]

Bingo! Thank you. Changing the print settings to "borderless" solved my issues.  

You are kind to have responded.

[richardplondon]

Glad if it helped. Not all print drivers provide a borderless mode which keeps to scale. AFAICT where no such choice is offered, you can safely assume that auto enlargement will happen - but, will not be previewed by LrC.