Borderless printing

[PXLHouseltd]

Hi, I recently bought a laser jet pro MFP M277dw to do some smaller runs of leaflet prints etc my problem is this.. even though i have removed all margins and borders and bleeds it still prints with a border.. i have tried numerous things and some time it prints to edge of the bottom & one side but leaves a border around the rest.. I am printing directly on to a5 paper so if i was to use gallotine to cut these will be smaller that usual not exactly what i want...

Can my model print direct to edge or am i doing something wrong lol i usually just send artwork off to be printed but thought maybe invest in something small to do some smaller runs in house.

Any help or info would be appreciated.

[dansdaduk]

As far as I'm aware, all modern laser printers have small 'unprintable margins' on all four edges of the paper.

With LaserJet printers, this margin is usually about 4 mm (0.16"), although some printers support an option referred to as 'edge-to-edge' which (despite its name) does not reduce the unprintable margins to zero, but to about 2 mm (0.08").

PCL5 drivers further complicate the issue, because this Page Description Language uses the concept of 'logical pages', which have minimum left and right margin values of about 6 mm (0.24").

PCL6 (PCL XL) and PostScript PDLs do not use the concept of logical pages, so are only constrained by the unprintable margins.

I believe that the reason for these margins is to eliminate (or at least reduce) the potential for stray toner to get into the mechanism of the printer, potentially causing quality issues, or even damage to the device.

In contrast, inkjet printers usually provide borderless features (sometimes only with photo paper?); but they use ink, rather than toner, and (many) have ink collection units to collect residual ink.