printing basics

[rbarr3]

I have a digital camera and took some pictures of individual people (head shots). I put one of them into photoshop. I changed the document settings in Size to 4 X 5.33. I assumed that this would print a 4 X 6 picture. The image on my screen was very large. I had to zoom out to about 50% to see the whole thing. I put a 4 X 6 piece of paper in my Cannon IP6000D and started printing. I was a little surprised when the image came out and had only a portion of the picture. It was not centered either. It had about a 1.5 inch border on 2 sides, even though I had set it up to have 0 borders in photoshop. I am using a mac with Mac OSX.

I thought I understood the relationship between pixels, DPI, PPI and document size, but I obviously have missed something. Also, I am not sure what Canvas size does.

Wouldn't you think that when you set doc size to 4 X 6 it would give you a 4 X 6 printout?


Can anyone help this new person?
Thanks

[weemannie]

You need to set the image size to 4x5.33 or whatever. The canvas size is the background. This can be enlarged, if for example you want to add a border to your image. Otherwise, leave it alone.

The image size on screen is meaningless in terms of print size. Control print size as above.

I'm not familiar with the Canon printer, but it must have paper settings for you to identify the print size, and paper size you require. If for example, you are printing to A4 paper, then set the paper size to A4 within your printer settings, and if the image size is less, say as above, you should be able to tell the printer whereabouts on the page to position the print, or even to print to the maximum size available (A4) according to the paper size settings.

[Hellashot]

If you are trying to print borderless you have to set it to print borderless, otherwise there will be a white border of unknown size around the entire image.