margins for printing? huh?

[ShangriLa]

I have been trying everything including calling Lexmark support for printing my 4x6 creation:) (Not much help there) My 'postcard' keeps printing w/ funky white margins. In the page set up I set the paper size to postcard and below this are spaces for margins. There are margin amounts there but they are 'grayed out' so I can't change them. Is there a way to change them? (I have been trying all kinds of other printing options with no luck) I know if I can get those margin settings to 0, it will print fine...help
TIA

[RobertSchuldenfrei]

Hi and Welcome,

You have come to the right place. This is the friendliest newsgroup (NG) on the Internet. While I do not have a Lexmark printer I will try to help you out. Lexmark publishes their user manuals on their website. If you tell me your printer's model number I will download the manual and try to figure out what is going on. There is a good chance that by naming your model some here at our online community will have that machine and solve your problem before I can even get the manual. People here race to solve your issues as fast as they can:). Welcome aboard!

Cheers,

Bob

[Relic]

Some while ago a very helpful member of the forum provided information on this problem ( Sorry I don't remember his name) that solved the issue for me.
To print a borderless 4x6 document the original image should be set to 5.85 X 3.90.
Leave the printer set to 4x6 and it works like a charm. Be sure the paper you're printing on is actually 4x6. For instance, Kodak paper is really 4x6.5.
Hope this works for you.

Relic

[ShangriLa]

Thank you, Robert. While on w/ their tech support people at Lexmark, he tells me that the printer doesn't support borderless 4 X 6. C'mon?
I also had an HP that needed an ink cartridge. Went and got that. Better quality anyway:)

Thank you Relic. That seemed to do the trick although it was cropping a bit of my bg layer. Re- sizing by layer helped me get the look I wanted as well. Can't say enough good about layers for sure.

Been reading the forum for a while and have only posted a couple of times but have to say thank you to all here for such great feedback, quality answers, patient responses, and creative help. Wish all forums were like this one:) Thanks again and happy designing!!

Susan

[Aussie Nan]

Yay, this solved my problem of not having 'all the picture' on my home printed photos. Will try changing the image size as suggested. I love this forum!

Toni