Why doesn't 4x6 = 4x6

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

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

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

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.

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.

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:

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

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.