Borderless printing

[woodstock58]

Is there a special driver to allow an HP LaserJetPro M281 to do borderless printing? 

[ShlomiL]

Hi,

Laser printers can't print borderless, it has a minimum margin of 4mm for each side.

Shlomi

[woodstock58]

Thanks for your reply. I hate to seem dense, but is it NOT possible, or just not adviseable? I read a post by someone who mentioned that the possible reason for no borderless printing is so that "extra" toner won't be "oversprayed" and could damage the printer head.

[ShlomiL · Accepted solution]

Hi,

It is not possible for laser printers, as listed on page 135 of its user guide:

http://h10032.www1.hp.com/ctg/Manual/c05543371

Indeed, printing to the very edge is not possible as the toner oversprays and that damages the fuser / imaging drum, it cannot be bypassed in any way, other then printing on a bigger paper size if possible and cutting the edges

[woodstock58]

Thanks again for the reply, and for pointing out the exact page number in the manual. I downloaded the manual, but to be honest, have not read all the way through it yet. I think I read another post, (or saw in a YouTube video) about someone who took the required image and enlarged it by about 5%. I tried that, and clicked "Print Actual Size", but it didn't really print edge to edge. 

I have seen other videos of other HP printers that DO have the "Borderless..." option, but I suppose they are all inkjet, huh? 

[woodstock58]

Thanks again, Shlomil, for all of your help. I think I'm satisfied now with the knowledge that laser printers cannot print edge-to-edge. Even if it will involve cutting the small borders off of each copy, I can do the cutting of several at a time, and It's not going to hurt the quality of the image I'm wanting to reproduce. I don't want to possibly damage my new printer by trying to get it to do something it's not meant to do. 

[ShlomiL]

Indeed,

Laserjet printers cannot exceed these margins on the paper, these margins are not printable..