Problem w/ borderless printing 10.4.8

[Stephen Magladry]

> Stephen Magladry wrote:
> > I have always been able to do borderless printing to my Lexmark 705 printer by setting print margins to zero in the Print Set-up dialog. Unforunately, I recently installed an HP printer. Now, all my printers ignore the page margin settings, always printing in the middle of a 11x8.5 when doing borderless printing. HP even had a statement in the documentation stating, "If you have problem printing from an application with borderless printing, print from one of the HP supplied applictions".
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> > After uninstalling the HP driver, and installing a printer driver for a Brother 440 CN, I am still unable to print a borderless page using a page margin of 0, to either printer; the image still prints centered on a 8.5x11.
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> > I believe that HP mucked with some settings in CUPS that their uninstaller didn't fix. Someone have an idea of a setting somewhere in CUPS printing system that might return my borderless printing back to the origin behavior?
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> I do not know ow your "borderless printing" is configured, but I suspect
> your PS jobs somehow determine the max. area which can be
> printed on - much like the CUPS test page does. Note that nearly all
> HP printers DO have margins that cannot be printed on
> by design or by construction. Perhaps you could post
> (an URL to) a sample file.
>
> Helge
>
> --
> Helge Blischke
> Softwareentwicklung
>
> H.Blischke at acm.org

Okay,

I realize I could have made this a whole lot clearer from the  beginning.

I am printing a borderless 4x6. In the Page Setup Dialog, I specifiy a page size of 4 in. x 6 in. with page margins of zero on all four sides. In this example, I use potrait, tall as opposed to long.

If I bring up a Print Preview, the image displays correctly, an image on a "sheet" with no borders what so ever. But as the scan of the results show, that is not what I get. I get an image centered on a 8.5 x 11.

An example of the scan can be found at http://home.earthlink.net/~imagladry/potrait.jpg

My scanner cropped off a border at the top. The top border is about 1/8".

An additional note about HP printers, they are center feed printers. I mean by this is that the paper always goes through the printer centered no matter the paper size. My other printers are side feed printers meaning the the paper is always butt up to the side no matter the size of the paper.