What's the problem here?

I'm new to this so be patient. On my computer screen, my image is cropped with about an 1/8th of an inch to spare (a picture of a car with the headlight almost touching the edge). Yet, when I print it out (an Epson RX580), it cuts into the image by about 1/8th of an inch. Is there anything I can do to stop this? I've wasted 5 8by10's!

Without seeing it or without more details, I’m guessing that your printing with a border and it’s eating the pixels. But if you could answer the following, it would help. First, did you resize yourself, or are you allowing the printer software to do so? Are you printing with a border?

On my printer software, I checked the box that read "Borderless", so hopefully that's activated. As far as the other question, huh? Resize myself?

The image of your camera has a ratio of 2x3. The paper is 8x10, so that's a ratio of 4x5. So you either get a border along the long sides, or the short sides are cropped.

You probabely have a setting 'fit to paper' in the software. Give that a try.
(And in much software there is also a preview of what the print will look like. Saves some paper.)

Alternatively: When you use Photoshop, create a new document, the size of the paper, and copy paste your image in there. You can then decide how and where you print it on the paper...

René Damkot wrote in post #3241206
The image of your camera has a ratio of 2x3. The paper is 8x10, so that's a ratio of 4x5. So you either get a border along the long sides, or the short sides are cropped.

Agreed. Take a look at THIS POST for a brief run down of what is likely happening.

Just to make sure, is the unwanted cropping happening ONLY on the sides and NOT on the top and bottom?

And, did you already modify the shot to a 4:5 (8:10) ratio?

If the answers are YES and then NO, then Mr Damkot's diagnosis is the correct one.

Rad

Yes--the cropping is only on the sides. Will check out your suggestions. Much thanks to all!