Printing cut by margins

[Kurt Pfeifle]

> Hi, I've made a PostScript file with background image that fills all the paper. When I previewed it in GhostView, it showed normally. But when I printed it with a printer, the background image was cut a few milimeters by the top, right, left and bottom margin. What I don't understand is how come in GhostView there's no margin whatsoever but when it is printed, there's margins in the top, bottom, left, and right side of the page? Can anybody tell me how to remove this margins so that I can print the background image in its full image?
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> Thanks in advance.

For a real printer, the PostScript Printer Description ("PPD") file is read. That file contains entries defining the "ImageableArea" of each media size (most older printers were physically unable to print edge-to-edge; some newer ones are).

GhostView is not using a medium with such physical limitations, it assumes "edge-to-edge" capabilities, so to speak.

You can try to manipulate+finetune the ImageableArea settings in the PPD, because some vendors are overly cautious and use definitions there which may be too narrow. However, if the printer can't go further to the edge (physical limitations), your PPD editing will not change that.

In short: you cannot remove the margin on the printout if your printer is not capable to do edge-to-edge printing.