Borderless printing enlarges document

[kmsese]

Product: HP Officejet Pro 8600

OS: Max OSX Lion 10.7.3

I've encountered a problem while printing a document borderless with my Officejet Pro 8600.  While the printer does print borderless (edge to edge), it also scales up the document a bit.  So for example, if I have a 8.5" x 11" document that has 1" margins and a color background that I want to print borderless when I choose the borderless option, the document does come out borderless, but the document has been scaled up so that the margins are now roughly .5".  In other words, the document is scaled such that I lose half an inch around the entire document.  I can't fine anyway around this.  Suggestions?

[PrintDoc]

Instead of printing borderless (which does not allow the use of black in, by the way), choose a non-borderless page size and adjust your page margins to get what you want.

[Keith_McC]

When I try this, I still get 1/2 inch un printed at the bottom of the page.  I am trying to print on 8 1/2 x 11 inch paper.  It looks like I will either have to settle for a border that I have to cut off (after resizing my content to that it will look nice) or take my document to be professionally printed.

I am really disapointed that borderless printing doesn't really work.

[Keith_McC]

Print Doc, can you give an example? I am trying to print borderless on 8 1/2 x 11 inch paper, using Officejet Pro 8600.  What size should I set the paper? and what size should I set the margins?

[Kyle_W]

Do you have the printer connected by USB or is networked? Also are you using the AirPrint driver or HP driver?

Thanks,

Kyle

[Keith_McC · Accepted solution]

PrintDoc,

I found the answer.  On my Mac, under page setup there is a paper size called "Borderless 8.5 in X 11 in".  I used that and print normally and it does a perfect borderless print!

Yeah!

[Keith_McC]

Kyle,

As you will see, I did get this to work just the way I wanted.  I am connected over my wireless network.  I think I am using the print driver from HP.

The answer is to select "borderless 8.5 in x 11 in" papre in printer settings.

Thanks for your's and PrintDoc's help 

[Kyle_W]

Not a problem, you replied after me and I didn't know that you had already gotten it working. Glad to hear it though!

Have a great day,

Kyle

[ptaylor]

Here is a twist.  I have the same enlargement problem but it involves tiled sheets.  For instance, I have created a standard ANSI D (22"x34") poster in Microsoft Publisher 2010 on a Windows 7 Professional 64 bit computer.  I have 11x17 paper loaded in my Officejet 7110 wide format printer.  When I print the document it correctly displays in the preview window as 4 portrait tiles with a dotted line indicating the borderless seam.  However the overall output page is not 22 x 34, it is  22.78  x 34.38.  The standard output borderless page size is enlarged to 11.39 x 17.19.  I do get borderless printed tiles but the printer enlarges the output as though I were printing on enlarged paper.  When I assemble the tiles there is missing content between the tiles which make the tiled poster unusable.  It seems that the printer is printing off the edge of the paper onto the platen.   I have printed the output to Adobe PDF and the output comes out as 22x34 and the tiles are correct.  Yet when I send the PDF to the 7110 is still prints on enlarged paper.  It seems to me that the 7110 driver does not understand standard paper sizes and needs a wide margin for wide format.    By the way this problem can be duplicated on a Windows XP computer.

[PrintDoc]

You may have to get out your scissors.

By design borderless printing prints off the edge of the page.  Oh, and also the printer only uses color ink during borderless printing as the black ink will clog the platen spitoon.