Can you set the print margins in Preview?

When you print any document, you have the option of setting the paper size. This may be a menu that is obvious, or you might have to hunt for it in the print dialogue box. However, when found, you can use this to set custom paper sizes, and can use it to set margins when programs do not support their own margin-handling routines. In this menu, choose Manage Custom Sizes, and then add a new size. Name it, then set its overall dimensions followed by the custom non-printable area. Note that this area might have limits for the printer you are using, so this will take some trial and error, but you can set various margin sizes (in inches) using the four boxes in the same window. Here is a screenshot:

No. The margins are set by the printer driver (the PPD for that printer) being used to print the image. If the printer driver supports a paper size that has smaller margins or supports borderless printing, then you can use the Scale setting to adjust the image size for the selected paper.

EagleSongs wrote:

I can set margins in other programs (like Photoshop, Word, Excel, Firefox, Chrome...), but there does not seem to be a setting for margins when printing from Preview. I don't want to resize the image, just get it to print in a certain position on the paper (template form).

In the case of Photoshop, you are placing an image on a canvas and can position the image to suit. Word and Excel have a Page Setup menu that lets you set the margin positions - which know since you have got the output you wanted. There is no Page Setup menu for most, if not all, Apple applications like Preview. Instead parts of the Page Setup menu have been added to the print dialog but margins is not one of them.

EagleSongs wrote:

However, I was trying to find a way to print from Preview and get it to position the image on the page the way I want.

Understood. Unfortunately you don't get that option in Preview. The image will be centred - both horizontal and vertical - based on the paper size and the printer you have selected in the print dialog. You could create a custom paper size with the margins you want to position the image and then use that custom paper in Preview. But your workaround of using Word gives you more control over the positioning of the image.

Create a Word doc with margins you want and save as "Preview Image Template." Then copy image in Preview, open template, paste, print. For example, I set margins at max for printable area on regular Word doc... 0.17" . Quick and sometimes saving the Word doc with image with separate title make work useful in future. Thank you to posts here confirming that there is no way to set margins in Preview. I wasted a lot of time with things like setting print % etc, trying to print from Preview.