Borerless printing observations

Bump, I need the answer to this question as well. Anyone have any ideas on how to print borderless?

Yep, it's as simple as adding a new printer to your system! You need to find and install a printer that is capable of printing borderless prints (eg Canon S9000). Then when you want to print the book to PDF, select that particular printer and choose the new paper size...then create the PDF.

HTH

do i just need the driver or the actual printer?

i tried installing the driver and attempted to try and select it but since that printer isn't plugged in it isn't giving me the option.. anyone have any ideas?

OK, I have had this problem too. I sent off my PDF to SharedInk.com and realised that the save to PDF in Aperture does NOT print borderless by default. The problem for me is that as I had no printer that could print borderless, I could not save a PDF as borderless.

Pretty useless!

So, I scoured the Internet and found this:

http://www.educationaltechnology.ca/dan/archives/2005/03/15/add-a-virtual-pdf-pr inter-to-mac-os-x-or-how-to-save-copies-of-completed-pdf-forms-from-acrobat-read er/

Allows you to install a PDF printer, which is accessible as a printer in Aperture (allows you to set printing to borderless). In the preview you'll see that the borders have gone! Once you've set this up, you can actually use the Save PDF instead of the print button, since when I tried to print using the new PDF printer I couldn't actually open the resulting PDF. The Aperture saved PDF (now borderless) now works though, so in effect the installed PDF printer driver is really just a dummy as you can save to PDF and still use the borderless printing functionality that is only initialised once you have installed a printer driver that is capable of this.

Hope this works for you. Good news for anyone that doesn't have a borderless printer.

Rob

Actually this doesn't work - you still get a slight border.

You MUST install a borderless printer (just find a friend who has one). From then on you can print US Letter (borderless) as an option, then ship it off to SharedInk.com

No need to look for such a friend - just go to a site like Epson.com and download one of their current drivers for a borderless printer.

Could you suggest a siutable one to download? My RX620 has borderless A4 but not US Letter.

Andy.

Personally I couldn't get the installation to complete properly without actually plugging in the printer once. I tried downloading an Epson driver and installing that but it wouldn't complete without the printer.

If anyone knows of a way of installing a driver (hey they're free) then just let everyone know about it.

Just look at the specs of each printer and you'll see which are borderless. e.g. Epson 4800

Andy, have you tried downloading the RX620 driver from the US Epson site? This might (might) install US letter as an option? Just a thought...

I've spent a while downloading and installing new drivers but so far without any success. However I've discovered that if I select 'Custom Paper Size' in the Aperture print dialogue screen, when printing a Standard-size book the measurements default to 21.587cm x 27.937cm. The metric dimensions of US Letter are given as 216 × 279 mm. When I print the book to PDF it looks correct and is borderless. Next step is to try submitting this to an external print service to see if it's acceptable.

Andy.

You don't need to install any additional drivers.

With whatever printer you have installed, simply selecting a CUSTOM file size, and entering 8.5x11, will get rid of the borders in both the preview window, and in the saved PDF.