Why doesn't 4x6 = 4x6

[Gibmeister]

I have a Canon S9000 printer and I use Photoshop 7 to size my photos for printing. I use the crop tool set at 4x6 at 300dpi, but when I go to print and tell the printer to do borderless prints on Canon 4x6 "Photo Paper Plus Glossy" paper I am told that the document will slightly extend off the paper. Portions of the photo are cut off in the process. Has anyone experience this and is there a way to get the whole print to come out. I tried the "fit to page" setting and that did not help. Thanks

Gib

[Scottes]

I've had the samething happen but couldn't figure out how to fix it (other than printing 4x6 on 5x7 paper).

[Guillermo Freige]

My epson photo 820 has the same problem. I must use something like a 3.8x5.7 size for an actual 4x6 borderless picture, but if I use the Epson 777 (no borderless option here), the 4x6 size works just fine. I'm using PS CS

[dicky109]

Don't know if this will apply in your situations, however, I had this problem when I first started using my Epson 1280, but realized that I was choosing borderless on 4 x 6 paper with perforated edges. Since the paper is actually larger than 4 x 6, if you choose borderless, it creates a sizing problem. I unchecked the "borderless" option, & it printed the full size.
Alternatively, the easiest solution is to buy the "no perforation" paper and then print borderless.

[Gibmeister]

Thanks, I am using the "no perforation" Canon paper. I might try the suggestion to resize the photo to a smaller than 4x6 size, but it seems I shouldn't have to do that.

[dtrayers]

I have a Canon S820 (similar to the S9000) and I print 4x6 without any issues.

I crop to a 4x6 size. I don't specify the resolution, it usually results to well over 240 ppi. I select the paper size to 4x6 in the printer and set the bleed to the third tick in the printer settings.

Here's a screen shot of my printer setup:

http://home.comcast.net/~dtrayers/photos/4x6.jpg

You can control the amount of bleed by the extension control.

I print on Epson Premium 4x6 paper.

[Gibmeister]

Thanks Dave I will give this a try when I get home from work and report back with my results.

[Gibmeister]

Thanks for the suggestions. The one that worked the best for me is to size the pictures at 3.88" by 5.85". I have not fine tuned it yet but this seems to work pretty good.