HP OfficeJet 8600 Border less Printing

[PJMAXWELL]

I have read through the forums and found nothing, apart from somone saying probably an issue with the Printing tray.

Every setting I can set on the printer driver and in word are set to borderless edge to edge. I have tried re installing the drivers, but there is still always a small margin, I read somewhere on the HP site they say to take the paper out the tray and move the slider to the left but obviously the slider centres the paper all the time so I cannot seem to set it to the far left. 

We have 3 of these printers and brought them with the intension of being able to print borderless, we didnt set them up right away, so now our maintenance has ran out so HP won't help.

[Waterboy71]

Hello PJMAXWELL,

Welcome to the HP Forums.

When attempting to do the borderless printing, what size is the paper that you are attempting to use?

Are you using tray #1 when printing?  Borderless printing can only be done in tray#1.

So I can better assist you, please respond with which Operating System you are running:
Which Windows Operating System am I running?
Mac OS X: How Do I Find Which Mac OS X Version Is on My Computer?

Thanks for your time.

Cheers,  

[PJMAXWELL]

Hi Waterboy

Thanks alot for responding, the paper is A4 I measured it as 297x210mm

From what I can see the printer only has one paper tray. The main tray you can pull out fill with paper and put back in.

On top the fax place, where the fax paper goes in.

I am using Windows 8.1

Cheers

PJMAXWELL

[Waterboy71]

Hi PJMAXWELL,

Please click on the following link for Print borderless documents.  Please go to Page 43.

Thanks again for your time.

[PJMAXWELL]

Thanks for your reply. I have read the page and followed it (it was pretty much how I had it)

Here is my setup:

In devices and printers "HP Officejet Pro 8600" - Printing Preferences :

Advanced Options:

Then settings in word:

Printer Propeties:

Advanced:

Result is still printing about a 5mm border down the left hand edge. 

[Waterboy71]

Hi again PJMAXWELL,

This may sound a little silly but do you have the printers power cable plugged into a power bar/strip? 

If so, please make sure that you have the printer power cable connected directly to a wall outlet and not a power bar/strip. Here is a document that uses a LaserJet printer as an example but it is meant for HP products in general. Please click on the following link that explains the Issues when Connected to an Uninterruptible Power Supply/Power Strip/Surge Protector.

This could be the reason why you are having the border down the left hand edge.

If the troubleshooting does not help resolve your issue, I would then suggest calling HP's Technical Support to see about further options for you. If you are calling within North America, the number is 1-800-474-6836 and for all other regions, click here: click here.

Thanks again for your time.

[PJMAXWELL · Accepted solution]

Hi, thanks for your help.

I finally figured out a solution. It appears to be Word with the issue.

I have an image on the far right of the page and that was what was causing the issue.

I ended up moving the image further right so that it now looked wrong and like it was off the page.

This worked, just took a bit of tweaking. Im not sure if there is a better way to do it so you can actually see what you print will look like, is slightly anoying because if I want to send to a client it would look bad.

So not an HP issue it is a word issue.

Thanks for your help Waterboy

[Salbel53]

What does connecting Directly to Power source have to do with Printer Issues

[ginshir]

The difinitive way to print borderless in this case is first to  make sure the printer settings are set to print borderless and your orientation either landscape or portrait is set right. You may have to select design and then page borders and make sure settings are correct there, along with orientation in layout. Once you have your image ready you need to go to file and select export. There you will find a button that says create pdf/xps. Click it and publish the image. If you already have Abobe Acrobat Reader it should automatically show up there next. At that point you just print your image and it will print borderless.  Voilà !!