Canon Printer and custom paper sizes

[l_d_allan]

I have a need to print 7 x 10 border-less

I'm not that clear on how borderless works, but my impression is that the printer has pads in place for certain sizes of borderless to catch the over-spray. If you trick the printer (QImage, turn off detect-paper-width, etc.), I would think you could get ink where you don't want it to go.

 

[The Hat]

Roy Sletcher
1: Select letter size border-less.

2: Using your printing software (PhotoShop or whatever - I use Qimage) align your image to top and left edges with the image sized to the paper size you will be printing.

3: Insert and run your reduced size paper. 6 x 8 in your case. The leading edge and left edge of the paper will coincide with the same edges in your printing software. The missing right side and back is on no consequence because NO image and NO paper.

4: On the PRO9000 I have to go to the maintenance tab and deselect "detect paper width" to make it run trouble free. If you don't have that command, possibly you could set the right size guide to 8 inches so the printer thinks it is feeding a letter size sheet.

Hope this helps. You could play around with variations on the above theme until you find a solution.

I had tried many ways to get round this borderless issue on my Canon printers, so decided to try your way.
Six times I tried two different printers each time failing on the output.

I was trying to print A5 borderless with the different set paper sizes;
I could get the printer to print A5 borderless on A4 and letter in portrait using photo shop but not on A5 size.

The pesky printer could do A5 borderless on three sides but left a 2mm margin on the trailing edge.
I got the very same results before just using the printer set up paper sizes..

 

[Roy Sletcher]

I have a need to print 7 x 10 border-less

I'm not that clear on how borderless works, but my impression is that the printer has pads in place for certain sizes of borderless to catch the over-spray. If you trick the printer (QImage, turn off detect-paper-width, etc.), I would think you could get ink where you don't want it to go.

Good Point about unwanted ink going into the insides of the printer.

In the interests of brevity and clarity I did not explain that although I use the setting in border-less mode, I in fact use the procedure for printing WITH BORDERS.

The benefit of using border-less is that I can precisely control the unprinted border size by carefully placing the image I want to print in the Qimage print utility. My need is for a white 3/16 border around the image of a greeting card. The Canon driver in regular mode (NOT border-less) allocates a huge amount of white space for the border, and I find it difficult to precisely position my image on the sheet with the borders I need.

Another point I did not mention is that the canon Pro9000 driver allows a setting for the border-less over spray. I have set it to the minimum, and from what I can tell it allows a very small amount of over spray.

Hope you can follow that somewhat long winded explanation. Thank you for your comment because I had not considered that aspect which will give me food for though if I should actually print border-less using this technique.

What I really like about this forum is the genuine sharing of useful information amongst participants. From what I can see we are spared the extremists and wannabe's so prevalent on other sites.

Roy Sletcher
Curmudgeon - so quick I get old, so slow I get smart.