Best printer for printing 4x6 borderless photos?

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Best printer for printing 4x6 borderless photos?

I have just figured out how to print borderless 4x6 prints using my canon i860 printer. It seems like a lot of trouble (crop each picture), considering I like to print pictures in batch.
Does anyone know of a good photo printer where I won't need to have to constrain each photo, and the pictures will print without borders by stretching them?
BTW, I use a Canon Powershot S40 camera. Would changing a setting on the camera solve this problem?

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Posted on Nov 22, 2005 10:53 AM

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Chris CA

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Nov 22, 2005 1:07 PM in response to mike0416

Does anyone know of a good photo printer where I won't need to have to constrain each photo
It's not a function of the printer, the computer or the program, it's a function of the size of the photo.
In order to print 4x6, you will HAVE to do something to the photo.

The Canon S40 has an aspect ration of 4x3 (which is not changeable). Gotta crop the picture

and the pictures will print without borders by stretching them?
If you simply stretch them to fit, they look like silly putty pictures.

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Old Toad

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Nov 23, 2005 4:03 PM in response to mike0416

I believe there are some printers that can print right from a camera or memory card but they do the cropping of the 4:3 ratio image to the 4x6 size by cropping a little from all sides to get the 4x6 size ratio. You may or may not like how they get cropped depending on what you have near the edges of the print. However, these printers can only print 4x6s.

As CrisCa pointed out, someone had to make the decision of what to include in the image and the image has to be cropped to there the width to height ratio matches that of 4x6 or 1.25. Out of the camera the images have a 4:3 ratio or 1.33. It's just the nature of the beast.

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