CS5 printing problem need help

[manimal]

Hi All,

Can you help?

I am using CS5 and have an Epson 7880 printer. When I crop an image in Photoshop at say 512mm x 512 mm (20"x20") one side will print at the correct size but the other will print about 5mm smaller.

I always use the crop tool and enter my dimensions in the width and height box and enter 300 dpi in the resolution box.

I have been trying to work out why it is doing this but can't.

Any help would be great.

Thanks

Forgot to say I am using windows 7 64 bit.

 

[Steve]

Are you allowing for the border?
If you haven't checked borderless printing in your printer settings you need to check the settings in the Photoshop "Print" window.
You may need to check "Scale to fit Media" in the "Scaled Print Size" box.

Let me know how you make out.

 

[manimal]

Hi Steve,
If I "scale to fit media" then it will print the image to the width of the page. The printer is 24" wide, I select "page size" super A1. Then I crop my image to 512mmx512mm, then press print. I have to "centre" my image in the "print" window because I need to leave 2" either side for stretching the canvas
Because I am setting My page size much bigger than the document size there is room for the image to move around, 4" in total.

Hope this makes sense.

 

[Steve]

That makes sense, I was assuming that the image was larger than the paper.
In your case the image will stretch if you check that option, no good.

I don't know.

Have you always had this problem?
Does it happen with other sizes?
If you cropped to another size say 500 X 500 would it still clip?

I assume you've double checked all your printer settings and photoshop "Print" window settings right?
Have you checked for the most current driver for your printer?
Just thinking out loud here.