Borderless printing

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Borderless printing

I'd like to know how to print borderless.

My printer (Brother MFC-J6920DW) can print borderless .pdf's made by others and also prints borderless from OS X Photos. This makes me quite confident the driver nor printer are the problem, even though the Brother helpdesk says 'We can't print borderless on Mac '.

When I try to print directly from for example Mail, Illustrator, Photoshop or an illustrator made .pdf opened in Preview, the printer driver preview will show a borderless preview miniature, but no matter what settings I use, the print will always have a 3 mm / 1/4 inch border around the edge of the paper.

How do I fix this?

MacBook Pro with Retina display, OS X El Capitan (10.11.2), 2nd monitor, Wacom

Posted on Jan 31, 2016 12:34 PM

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Answer 1

May 31, 2016 3:52 AM in response to Leon Buijs

It is sometimes confusing in which 'tab' of the print dialog to achieve this, solution is simple.

Just use the first 'Advanced' screen/tab of the print dialog and change the only following 2 settings:

Paper Size: A4 Borderless

[Select radio button] Scale to Fit: Fill Entire Paper

This should hopefully help.

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Answer 2

Leon Buijs Author

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Feb 5, 2016 5:16 AM in response to jerzyna

Do you have the same printer? If not, what brand / type of printer or multifunctional do you use?

To be clear: I am printing from Preview. Printing options differ per application. When I print a .pdf from a webpage in Safari, I never get it right, but from Preview, I found out it is possible to print borderless at 100%.

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Answer 3

jerzyna

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Feb 4, 2016 6:05 AM in response to Leon Buijs

Do you have any solution to this problem, I have this problem recently too.

Previously I ran off on the same machine as you borderless from Macbook.

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Leon Buijs Author

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Feb 6, 2016 3:33 AM in response to jerzyna

You're in the 10.10 / Yosemite forum. You might want to try the 10.11 El Capitan forum 😉

I would be surprised if that would make the difference though, because the printer driver and the printer (and firmware) itself is where it mostly happens. Have you checked / updated the printer driver? (There is also a printer firmware update for this printer that I installed)

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Answer 5

jerzyna

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Feb 5, 2016 7:52 AM in response to Leon Buijs

I have the same printer. I ran off in January before upgrading to 10.11.3 and everything worked. I ran off from preview, illustrator and Adobe Acrobat Reader DC and everything worked...

😟

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